Posts Tagged ‘live action’

Tintin’s Newest Adventure!

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Tintin and Snowy

I am excited to announce that the classic comic by Hergé, featuring Tintin and his dog Snowy, will soon be made into three full-length movies!

Peter Jackson has teamed up with Steven Spielberg, who holds the film rights for the books, to make the movies. They will be based on three of the 23 comic books and the first of the series is hopefully to be released in 2009/2010.

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this news! I’ve been a Tintin fan since I discovered the comic, over 15 years ago, in a used book store. Now, I have the entire collection of comics and even a novel featuring the Belgian reporter titled Tintin in the New World. In the novel, Tintin even visits Machu Picchu!

Anyway, I digress. Back to more about the movies! From what I’ve read, they are going to be made back-to-back, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and they will be a combination of computer animation and motion capture technology, with actors playing the characters. The budget will be in the region of $100 million per movie.

As far as I know they are still looking for the perfect actor to play Tintin. I’m assuming because of the search for the “perfect face”, the movie might take longer than anticipated to be released. That’s okay, though, because Tintin is the main character, so the perfect person has to play him. I’d rather wait an extra year for a superb movie than have them rush to make a mediocre one.

‘The Hobbit’ is a Go!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The Hobbit After years of disputes, Peter Jackson has signed on to produce and write (at least when the strike is over) two movies: an adaptation of Tolkien’s book ‘The Hobbit’ (the prequel to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy) and another film based on Middle Earth. It’s also been hinted that he will direct the movies, too.

Also, yes, you read that right, two movies, not just the one adapted from the original book. The concept for why two movies is best explained by the Hollywood Insider:

Jackson and his life/creative partner Walsh have always envisioned the big-screen adaptation of ‘The Hobbit‘ as two movies. The first would deal with the 80-year old novel. The second, imagined entirely by Jackson and Walsh, would link the conclusion of ‘The Hobbit’ to the start of the first ‘Lord of the Rings’ book, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’.

I’m not quite sure what to think about that second movie just yet, but I know I’m ripe with anticipation over ‘The Hobbit’ being made into a movie. ‘The LOTR’ trilogy (counted as one long movie) is one of my favorite movies ever and with Peter Jackson back at the helm, I know ‘The Hobbit’ will be just as good.

It might be a year or two until we actually get to see the movie(s), but good things come to those who wait, right? 😀