Spielberg and Peter Jackson to direct mo-cap Tintin movies

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/2465/53/

It will be Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson directing and producing three back-to-back Adventures of Tintin movies for DreamWorks, according to Variety. The movies will be produced in 3D digital and motion-capture technology. Kathleen Kennedy will also serve as a producer on the movies. The movie studio announced in March 2007 that it would produce movies based on the Herge Studios' property, which follows the adventures of a young Belgian news reporter. Spielberg and Jackson will each direct one of the Tintin movies, with no word on who would direct the third. Both Spielberg and Jackson are longtime fans of Tintin, which was created as a comic strip by Georges Remi, aka Herge, in 1929. Since then there have been 23 books published in a range of languages, all of which continue to be huge bestselling titles.

[Lucky_Bob]

I've heard of this... and as a die hard Tintin fan I'm REALLY skeptical about the whole thing.

[Inkwolf]

I'm trying to stay positive. After all, it's Peter Jackson AND Steven Spielberg.

I can't imagine Tintin in 3D, though. I keep thinking of his head as a rendered plain oval with a couple of ears and a topknot sticking out...

[MonkeyFunk]

There's more info here:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Jackson said WETA will stay true to Remi's original designs in bringing the cast of Tintin to life, but that the characters won't look cartoonish. "Instead," Jackson said, "we're making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people — but real Herge people!"

So we're looking at Polar Express/Final Fantasy here.

(...hmm, never thought I'd hear Peter Jackson discussing the pores in Tintin's flesh.)

[mark777]

captian habit will be a hard role to cast...