"Tintin" Spielberg's Next Film!
"ET" Director Teams Up With Peter Jackson For "Tintin" Trilogy!
Andy Serkis has revealed details of the forthcoming "Tintin" trilogy, to be directed by both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Report By James Luxford
Summer 2008, Steven Spielberg will be reviving an old franchise by bringing Indiana Jones back for one last crack of the whip in “Indiana Jones & The Temple of The Crystal Skull”. However, he is already preparing for his next franchise: a motion-capture, big screen trilogy of “Tintin”.
The film has been an ambition of Spielberg’s for a while, but time and budget constraints all held the project back, not to mention how to best capture the vivid world Herge created for his character. Now it’s believed the film will be set for late next year, and will be filming very soon according to one of the film’s stars.
Serkis Reveals All!
The movies will be made using motion-capture technology (the type used for the giant ape in the movie “King Kong”, and for Gollum in the “Lord of The Rings” trilogy). However, news has emerged that not only is Andy Serkis, a man synonymous with motion capture, involved, but that filming could begin a lot sooner than first thought.
Whilst doing an interview for his new movie “The Cottage”, Serkis said to IndieLondon.co.uk – “The bulk of the shoot starts in September but things got a little bit moved around after the writers’ strike.” Asked if he was worried he'd have to play Snowy the Dog, he laughed “Absolutely, in fact people assume that I am, which is even more disturbing”. He will in fact be playing the part of Captain Haddock, Tintin’s sea-faring ally. He is, so far, the only announced member of the cast.
Spielberg & Jackson Team Up!
The plan, already announced earlier last year, is to have a trilogy of movies, one made by Spielberg, one made by Jackson, and a third either to be directed by both, or by a guest director. It will be written by Steven Moffat, perhaps best known to UK audiences as a writer on the series “Doctor Who”, and the mini-series “Jekyll”, a modern update of the “Jekyll & Hyde” story starring Michelle Ryan.
No announcement has been made regarding who will play Tintin himself, however it has been rumoured that newcomer Kirsten Myburgh is up for the part. The film is set for a 2009 release, with the (presumably Jackson-directed) sequel set for the following year. This will the first theatrical Tintin movie in over 40 years, the last being "Tintin et les oranges Bleus" in 1964.
Source: Andy Serkis Interview
