The Hobbit director dressed as Captain Haddock.
Friend of the blog and our resident Tintin expert, Damien, shared an interesting interview today, an interview with Tintin 2 director, Peter Jackson. The director, who produced the first Tintin film, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, and who is currently directing the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, spoke to Salon about not being a superhero fan and his tastes in comic books. This, inevitably, led to talking about Hergé's Tintin and the film's based on it.
Steven Spielberg directed the first film, and is set to produce the sequel - written by Stormbreaker author, Anthony Horowitz. Of the sequel, Jackson told Salon that it will be:
“slightly less of a rollicking adventure and something a bit more, a little bit more of a sort of espionage type of story. So it’s a slight tone shift, which I think will be good.”
Well, that narrows the list of possibilities a bit. The obvious choice, in terms of espionage type stories - that introduces Professor Calculus - would be The Calculus Affair, but Anthony Horowitz told us on Twitter last month that we shouldn't "put too much money on that". Of course, it's entirely possible that Horowitz was just trying to throw us off the scent - as there's not that many other stories that fit the espionage mould. The Black Island (one of Peter Jackson's favourite Tintin adventures) or King Ottokar's Sceptre are also possibilities, but references to those adventures appeared as newspaper clippings on Tintin's wall in the first film, so who knows.
Basically, we're no closer to knowing than we were before - if anything we're further away - but it sure gets you excited for the film!
We also now have a better idea of when we can expect to see Tintin 2, as Jackson also stated in the interview that he hopes to spend five or six weeks in 2013 doing the mo-cap for the film - when he's winding the second part of The Hobbit. That would seem, factoring in animation time, to place a Tintin 2 release in late 2015 or early/mid 2016.
It seems such a long way off...
Be sure to check out the full interview for more, including talk about possibly bringing in another director for Tintin 3.
Anthony Horowitz just told us on Twitter that "The clippings are irrelevant." So, this opens the field up. Given that The Calculus Affair was said to be ruled out (although, it could still be a bluff), and that we now know that the stories on the wall in the first film are still possibilities, The Black Island is looking very likely!
A great story that is sufficiently far removed from the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-esque nature of the first film, to shake things up a bit tonally, should make a brilliant film. And we know Jackson likes animated gorillas after his King Kong remake!
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A great story that is sufficiently far removed from the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-esque nature of the first film, to shake things up a bit tonally, should make a brilliant film. And we know Jackson likes animated gorillas after his King Kong remake!
Keep visiting A113Animation for more Tintin 2 news as it happens!
Ah, I remember rumors back in 2009 I think about the director for the third film being Edgar Wright.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be awesome, but I'm also a huge fan of the idea of a Tintin movie co-directed by Spielberg & Jackson. That'd be geek paradise.
Oh wow, Edgar would be a great choice! Although I do agree, I like the collaboration. Plus, given Peter Jackson's stated love for Prisoners of the Sun, and the rumours that that's what the third film would be on; I can't imagine him wanting to pass it over.
DeleteAndy Serkis as Ranko !
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's probably not gonna happen, even if Black Island is part of the film. If Ranko and Haddock are in the same scene, he won't be able to play both. But he still would be a great Ranko.
Haha, I'm sure he could give it a good shot. There's few better at playing apes!
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