Tintin will become a movie hero

[Fredrik Martinsson]

From BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2502495.stm)

The young hero Tintin is the latest comic book character to be transformed for the big screen for a real-life action adventure, according to reports.

Steven Spielberg is set to produce the movie with Kathleen Kennedy in a joint project for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

Trade newspaper Variety reports planning is still in the early stages as the studios negotiate with Moulinsart, the Belgian company that owns the rights to Tintin.

The cartoon was created by the late Georges Remi who worked under the pseudonym Herge.

[Planet-man]

I love Tintin, but....will this work on the big screen?

[Random]

Who?

[Ice]

Yeah, heard about this the other day on CBR. This should be fun.

[Bass]

Tintin! Yay! :D

This could be amazing. A new Indiana Jones! :D

It could also be a travesty. :?

[Iceshadow]

Who?

You've never watched Tintin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin) when you were younger?
I remember it being on Nick, pretty good series, had a very Indiana Jones feel to it. Though it was much bigger in Europe than it was here.

[Victor Von Doom]

I love Tintin, but....will this work on the big screen?

Hell yeah it could work on big-screen. Just like Bass says below....make it a wild Indy Jones' adventure movie and you got awesomeness.


Tintin! Yay! :D

This could be amazing. A new Indiana Jones! :D

It could also be a travesty. :?

I'd like to think this could be good............say as opposed to TMNT or Speed Racer.

[ProjectX2]

All you people who don't know who Tintin is should just go kill themselves now.

Tintin books are the ****. I don't think it'll work as a movie though.

Shia LaBeouf will end up playing Tintin, because Spielberg loves him now.

[Random]

You've never watched Tintin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin) when you were younger?
I remember it being on Nick, pretty good series, had a very Indiana Jones feel to it. Though it was much bigger in Europe than it was here.

OH MY GOD. I vaguely remember seeing that way back on Nick at 6 in the mourning

[Planet-man]

All you people who don't know who Tintin is should just go kill themselves now.

Tintin books are the ****. I don't think it'll work as a movie though.


Totally. I have every single one.

Shia as Tintin? He's not THAT bad a choice actually. I'm trying to think of better people for it.

[Issued]

I vote
Jack Nicholson for Captain Hadok :)


yeah I know, he looks nowhere near the captain, but still I would like to see him in that role

[ultimatedjf]

Tintin was my favorite book series when I was just starting out with my library card. I got one at age 3 but I don't think I started Tintin till' at least 5. I could be wrong though. Both me and my two siblings learned to read when we were 3. :)

[moonmaster]

:? I have absolutely no ****ing idea what "Tintin" is.

Never even heard of it.

[Bass]

Tintin is the name of the Belgian journalist who stars in the series.

He has a dog called Snowy (animals talk in the series, but no one understands them except other animals and us, the audience - Snowy doesn't talk like animals in Dr Dolittle), and his friend is the enebriated Captain Haddock. There's other supporting characters.

Generally, Tintin gets involved in a mystery requiring him to go on some globe-trotting adventure to get to the bottom of it. For example, in "Cigars of the Pharoahs" Tintin gets involved in tracking a conspiracy of cultists who use a ancient Egyptian symbol of the Pharoahs as a brand on cigars and somehow this is related to political coups and machinations. In "Flight 714" he's on a plane that gets hijacked and taken to a secret island base for an unknown reason. "Land of the Black Gold" deals with an oil conspiracy. He gets to go to the Moon, even. There's an underwater treasure-hunt. There's a jewel-heist.

They're 64-pages each and I love reading them. My brother grew up in France and so he had Asterix and Tintin books and we'd read 'em and I'd pick up English versions to read.

Stuart Immonen has said he'd love to do a Tintin story.

Very enjoyable series this is. :D

[Planet-man]

:? I have absolutely no ****ing idea what "Tintin" is.

Never even heard of it.

Disgusting.:noway:

[Joe Kalicki]

I used to watch the show sometimes, but have never read the books.

I see them at Barnes and Noble and every now and then think about buying them.

I would totally buy a DVD of the show.

I would work as a movie pretty easily, I think. Doesn't mean it can't suck though.

[moonmaster]

Disgusting.:noway:
*eats puppy*

[ourchair]

Tintin is the name of the Belgian journalist who stars in the series.

He has a dog called Snowy (animals talk in the series, but no one understands them except other animals and us, the audience - Snowy doesn't talk like animals in Dr Dolittle), and his friend is the enebriated Captain Haddock. There's other supporting characters.

Generally, Tintin gets involved in a mystery requiring him to go on some globe-trotting adventure to get to the bottom of it. For example, in "Cigars of the Pharoahs" Tintin gets involved in tracking a conspiracy of cultists who use a ancient Egyptian symbol of the Pharoahs as a brand on cigars and somehow this is related to political coups and machinations. In "Flight 714" he's on a plane that gets hijacked and taken to a secret island base for an unknown reason. "Land of the Black Gold" deals with an oil conspiracy. He gets to go to the Moon, even. There's an underwater treasure-hunt. There's a jewel-heist.Beat me to it.

I like to curse like Captain Haddock whenever I remember to, and whenever I can. Illiterate troglodytes! Onerous Visigoths! Austrolopithecus face!


Stuart Immonen has said he'd love to do a Tintin story.I totally ****ing approve.

[Planet-man]

Beat me to it.

I like to curse like Captain Haddock whenever I remember to, and whenever I can. Illiterate troglodytes! Onerous Visigoths! Austrolopithecus face!


Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles!!!

[ourchair]

Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles!!!It's fun to make up a few of your own that sound authentic.

[Bass]

I like to curse like Captain Haddock whenever I remember to, and whenever I can. Illiterate troglodytes! Onerous Visigoths! Austrolopithecus face!


Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles!!!

By Toutatis! I shall do you an injury!

:D


...

Wait. That was Asterix.

...

Thundering typhoons?

[ProjectX2]

I recently got 6 hardcover volumes of Tintin out (collecting 18 books) and finished the first one last night.

Ah, Tintin. How ridiculously fun you are.

I have no idea how this will work as a movie. Do they do an original story, or adapt one of the books?

Who would you cast? You've got Tintin, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson as the main characters.

I was giving it a thought last night, and I think Shia Labeouf should play Tintin, but I have no idea why. As for the others, I'll need to give them more of a think through.

[Planet-man]

Of all the stories, the Red Rackham's Treasure saga would probably make the best movie.

[vintsukka]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20387

They're making three movies, Spielberg and Jackson will both direct one and it's still indecided who directs the third. And they're doing them as photorealistic computer animation.

I know it's not gonna happen, but I wish they'd make them in French. That's the original language, after all. Here in Finland the characters' names haven't been changed, the dog is called Milou and the twins are called Dupont and Dupond (or the Dupondt twins). Snowy and Thompson just don't sound right to me.

[ourchair]

Of all the stories, the Red Rackham's Treasure saga would probably make the best movie."Rack."

Uh-huhuhuhuhuhuhuh!

[Planet-man]

Another big article about all this: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article1830463.ece

Yeah..... sooooo can't wait.:rockon:

[Random]

TinTinTrilogy (http://www.joblo.com/spielberg-tintin-news)

[Planet-man]

This needs to be the next Dreamcasting.

[Iceshadow]

TinTinTrilogy (http://www.joblo.com/spielberg-tintin-news)

Awesome.


This needs to be the next Dreamcasting.

I could have sworn it was done already.

[Langsta]

This sounds awesome.

[ProjectX2]

TinTinTrilogy (http://www.joblo.com/spielberg-tintin-news)

I read all of that in a NZ magazine months ago... internet is getting slack.

[ourchair]

In case anyone was wondering, the script was submitted very recently, which had the effect of shooting its HSX value by about 200%.

[Ice]

CBR:

According to IGN (http://movies.ign.com/articles/830/830684p1.html), casting began in Los Angeles last week for the proposed trilogy with Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg steering the ship.

[Planet-man]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/Planet-man/TintinAdventure.jpg

[ProjectX2]

Is there any more news on this? A cast? The other director involved?

[ourchair]

Is there any more news on this? A cast? The other director involved?Wasn't it heavily rumoured, but not confirmed, that The Beef would play Tintin?

Also as far as I know, Peter Jackson AND Steven Spielberg will be working on this together, and it's going to be motion capture animated.

EDIT: Oh, I remembered now that Thomas Sangster from Love, Actually and Nanny McPhee is playing Tintin, and the script is by Doctor Who's Steven Moffat

[ProjectX2]

I'm still looking forward to this. Andy Serkis has been confirmed as Captain Haddock, I believe.

Any rumours of the third director?

[ourchair]

The Third Man directing Tin Tin, will be Orson Welles, naturally.

[Ice]

CBR:


Will the Peter Jackson collaboration be the next directing we see from Spielberg? IGN (http://movies.ign.com/articles/905/905771p1.html) says yes.

[ProjectX2]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4359611/Tintin-Daniel-Craig-and-Jamie-Bell-to-star-in-new-Steven-Spielberg-film.html

This is really exciting. The cast, the writing team, everything. I am looking forward to this.

[Iceshadow]

Sweet. I wonder if Pegg and Frost will be the Thompson Twins?

[ProjectX2]

Sweet. I wonder if Pegg and Frost will be the Thompson Twins?

They are, last I heard.

I can't believe all of the people involved in this. Jamie Bell. Daniel Craig. Simon Pegg. Nick Frost. Andy Serkis. Mackenzie Crook. Steven Spielberg. Peter Jackson. Stephen Moffat. Edgar Wright.

This is shaping up to be something special.

Though I would prefer if it was live action.

[ultimatedjf]

Tintin was my all-time favorite when I was a kid. I almost wish I could go back and be a six-year-old again when these movies come out, because I don't think I can ever get back to that level of full-blown Tintin obsessive I was when I was a little one. Still, it should be a fun experience.

[ourchair]

I was kinda hoping Craig would play Haddock, rather than Red Rackham, as I think it would be really interesting to see him bring out his comedic side.

[Iceshadow]

I was kinda hoping Craig would play Haddock, rather than Red Rackham, as I think it would be really interesting to see him bring out his comedic side.

Hmm, I've never heard him do an American accent before, much less a role a raucous as Haddock, but could be interesting.

[Bass]

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[Ice]

CBR:


From the recent comics festival in Angouleme, Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson have a brief chat about their upcoming “Tintin” film at the Tintin web site (http://www.tintin.com/).