Tintin trillogy announced
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You are so right, if it wasn't for the likes of Tintin; where would the world be without the likes of Superman (1934), Batman (1938) or maybe the likes of Marvel's Human Torch or Sub Mariner in 1939.
I'll stick with Tintin thanks, with a combo of Spielberg, Jackson and Moffat (writing); it can only be a good sign.
I'll stick with Tintin thanks, with a combo of Spielberg, Jackson and Moffat (writing); it can only be a good sign.
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I was looking forwarRAB to Tintin until it was announced that it would all be that CGI crap like Beowulf. 
Confused44
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It will be more advanced crap though, and in 3D 
mommas3girls2000
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Beowulf was only let down by the story and script. On a CGI level it was brilliant (except they still haven't perfected facial emotions). CG films can be fantastic, and Tintin has everything going for it with the master Spielberg directing and Steven Moffat (just announced as the new Doctor Who showrunner, wrote some of the best like Empty Child, Blink) scripting the first one. IMO it can't go wrong.
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It seems like Paramount will be financing the Tintin films now according to Dark Horizons:
"Paramount has stepped in to takeover full financing on Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's "Tintin" trilogy after Universal Pictures recoiled at the cost reports Deadline Hollywood Daily.
With the economy hitting rough times, studios are cutting costs wherever possible. Thus when the directors submitted a $130 million budget to produce the trio films based on the Belgian comic last week, Universal balked at the idea.
Now comes word that after a brief scramble, Viacom has just stepped in and offered the bigtime directors full financing on the project which was supposed to start production next month. No word as yet if any of this issue will cause a delay.
It's a gamble in these times. With 30% of the film's gross going to the film's directors, the property will have to make on the order of over $400 million before a studio would see a dime - meaning the property neeRAB to do well both in domestic and global markets.
Jackson's WETA digital workshop has already spent $30 million developing performance-capture technology to make the boy detective, his dog and the rest of his motley crew come alive.
Internationally the two dozen or so graphic novels have been widely known, acclaimed and popular for many decades. In the US however they remain barely known works which could put a serious question about the film's domestic possibilities.
Yet with the dream duo of Spielberg and Jackson, acclaimed scribe Steven Moffat adapting the script, and Herge's work as the basis - the film already has more going for it than 98% of comic adaptations and pretty much all the 'mo-cap' films to have come out of Hollywood so far.
Still the timing is awkward as the DreamWorks-Reliance deal has finally come through, allowing Spielberg's Dreamworks company to sever ties with Paramount and become is own entity with a likely distribution deal through Universal."
"Paramount has stepped in to takeover full financing on Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's "Tintin" trilogy after Universal Pictures recoiled at the cost reports Deadline Hollywood Daily.
With the economy hitting rough times, studios are cutting costs wherever possible. Thus when the directors submitted a $130 million budget to produce the trio films based on the Belgian comic last week, Universal balked at the idea.
Now comes word that after a brief scramble, Viacom has just stepped in and offered the bigtime directors full financing on the project which was supposed to start production next month. No word as yet if any of this issue will cause a delay.
It's a gamble in these times. With 30% of the film's gross going to the film's directors, the property will have to make on the order of over $400 million before a studio would see a dime - meaning the property neeRAB to do well both in domestic and global markets.
Jackson's WETA digital workshop has already spent $30 million developing performance-capture technology to make the boy detective, his dog and the rest of his motley crew come alive.
Internationally the two dozen or so graphic novels have been widely known, acclaimed and popular for many decades. In the US however they remain barely known works which could put a serious question about the film's domestic possibilities.
Yet with the dream duo of Spielberg and Jackson, acclaimed scribe Steven Moffat adapting the script, and Herge's work as the basis - the film already has more going for it than 98% of comic adaptations and pretty much all the 'mo-cap' films to have come out of Hollywood so far.
Still the timing is awkward as the DreamWorks-Reliance deal has finally come through, allowing Spielberg's Dreamworks company to sever ties with Paramount and become is own entity with a likely distribution deal through Universal."
Here is some casting rumours from Dark Horizons website:
"While visiting the set of the upcoming motion-capture adventure "Tintin", Simon Pegg may have scored himself and his regular on-screen cohort a gig.
Pegg tells The Times Online that Steven Spielberg told the "Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead" actor that "Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins".
Pegg seemed to be floored by the idea, and many online have already expressed excitement (including myself). Despite their physical differences, the mo-cap technology essentially allows these two actors to play identical twins in the CG animated feature.
In the books, Thomson and Thompson are a pair of bumbling and incompetent detectives who essentially provide the comic relief for the series - always pursuing the wrong suspect and often getting into more misunderstandings than actual police work while Tintin and Captain Haddock are the ones to uncover the nefarious conspiracies underway. They appeared in a total of seventeen of the twenty-four adventures penned between 1930 and 1986."
"While visiting the set of the upcoming motion-capture adventure "Tintin", Simon Pegg may have scored himself and his regular on-screen cohort a gig.
Pegg tells The Times Online that Steven Spielberg told the "Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead" actor that "Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins".
Pegg seemed to be floored by the idea, and many online have already expressed excitement (including myself). Despite their physical differences, the mo-cap technology essentially allows these two actors to play identical twins in the CG animated feature.
In the books, Thomson and Thompson are a pair of bumbling and incompetent detectives who essentially provide the comic relief for the series - always pursuing the wrong suspect and often getting into more misunderstandings than actual police work while Tintin and Captain Haddock are the ones to uncover the nefarious conspiracies underway. They appeared in a total of seventeen of the twenty-four adventures penned between 1930 and 1986."