A Tag Team of titans is on board to bring us Tintin to the silver screen! Peter Jackson and Steven Speilerg are joining forces in both direction and production. We get the news from movieweb:
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi’s beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks, according to Variety. The films will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.
The two filmmakers will each direct at least one of the movies; the studio wouldn’t say which director would helm the third.
I think it is fun that these guys will trade off directing duties for different films in the trilogy. This is a series that will have tremendous international appeal and very well could set itself up to be a Harry Potteresque money making machine.
I remember as a youngster going to the bookmobile that would come weekly to our school. Often I would look for Tintin books or the Mr.Men books by Roger Hargreaves. The 7 year old Doug Nagy is very excited to see this film, so I will have to take him to the theater.
There is a lot of Tintin that they are able to use as source material for three films. With Peter Jackson’s ability to translate books to film, I am certain the translation between formats will be one of quality. On paper this looks like it will be an outlandish success.
