British screenwriter Steve Moffatt (Doctor Who, Coupling) has been hired write an adaptation of the Eurpean comic strip The Adventures of Tintin for Dreamworks. As you already know, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackscon have signed on to direct a trilogy of films based on Georges Remi’s Belgian. It’s a passion project. Spielberg has been trying to get the film rights to the series for more than 25 years. The films will be created using digital 3D performance capture technology.
The Adventures of Tintin is a 70 years series of Belgian comic books originally created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi. The series follows Tintin, a young Belgian reporter and traveller who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. There have been both live-action and animated film adaptations of The Adventures of Tintin.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I’m just saying that Tintin is DYING!!!!! to be a live action film it’s such a disappointment that it will be CGI.
LIVE ACTION TINTIN OR BUST!
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Now I’m usually all for CG, and this will probably be great, but I still feel that the has the opportunity to be a truly great 2D film, esp. in the hands of Jackson and Speilberg. I just hope they’ve really decided tat this is the best medium for it.
October 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
When it was announced that Spielberg and Jackson were to make these movies i thought: fantastic! I grew up reading Tintin and still love re-reading the stories now.
I’d also love to see how WETA developed the CGI characters; ‘real’ actors wouldn’t do Tintin and co. justice and a 2D series has already been made ten years ago. So if the technology’s there, why not try it out?
In fact, the only worry i had was who was to write and adapt the stories. I thought, that in an ideal world they need to be written by someone who can reinvent the stories and characters to make them fresh and exciting for new audiences, while remaining true to the essence of whats been before to keep the die hards happy.
And i thought about the writers of the new critically acclaimed Doctor Who series (which the geek that i am, also love), who as children, were fans themselves.
So how pleased was i when i read this article?!
Also, Moffatt wrote ‘Press Gang’; a brilliant series for CITV in the UK in the late 80s/early 90s about a gang of meddling young reporters. So maybe its fitting that he should write for the most famous one of all.
And his new story ‘Blink’ in series 3 of Doctor Who is fantasically scary.
Crumbs! 2009 can’t come fast enough.