Tintin to make his way to cinemas in December 2011
Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” will hit the cinemas in December 2011. The movie is currently in pre-production with the second film rumored to be called The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham’s Treasure. According to Reuters: The holiday movie is a 3-D motion-capture feature inspired by the renowned character [...]
Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” will hit the cinemas in December 2011. The movie is currently in pre-production with the second film rumored to be called The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham’s Treasure.
According to Reuters:
The holiday movie is a 3-D motion-capture feature inspired by the renowned character created by Herge — the pen name of Belgian writer and artist Georges Prosper Remi — in two dozen stories first published 80 years ago.
Jamie Bell stars as the globetrotting young reporter Tintin, who faces off against the nefarious Red Rackham, played by Daniel Craig. Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook co-star.
Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish wrote the screenplay.
“Unicorn” is intended as the first in a series of films derived from the Herge books.
Spielberg, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy are producing the film, and Jackson’s Weta Digital has developed the performance-capture technology that Jackson himself will use when he directs the second film in the franchise. Spielberg started testing footage for the project last year and began filming officially in January.
