Two of the most powerful directors in Hollywood today are teaming up to produce and direct three back-to-back
Tintin movies.
Steven Spielberg and
Peter Jackson will make the movies over at Spielberg's Dreamworks (which we first
reported in March) will be produced using 3-D fully digital performance capture technology.
Variety are telling us the project will work with one director helming one picture, then the other doing the second before they come to an agreement on who should helm the third. Spielberg, who has been desperate to make a Tintin movies for longer than I have been alive said...
"Herge's characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we've seen to date with computer animated characters," "We want Tintin's adventures to have the reality of a live-action film, and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Herge created,"
Just incase your not familiar with Tintin, this is for you...
Series, which has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, chronicles adventures of a junior reporter who will follows stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.
Peter Jackson's WETA company will also be handling the character designs of the characters. Variety speculate that the project could be Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's next film, as both should be free come the fall after
Indiana Jones IV and
The Lovely Bones is in the can. No word on who will direct the first movie, but I've got a feeling that with this being so personal to Spielberg that he will shoot first. I'm glad they are going for this type of animation for the franchise and not some live-action crap which just wouldn't work at all for Tintin. Hopefully this technology will be able to keep to the basic principle of the original characters and with Jackson and Spielberg's great storytelling ability, this could be something really special.