Peter Jackson and Steven Speilberg have announced that their TinTin Trilogy project is well underway and they have announced their choice for directors. Each other.
As you may remember, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are collaborating to bring the popular Tintin series to life. Now comes the news, from a recent Andy Serkis interview, that Spielberg intends to tackle the first film and Jackson the second. No one yet knows who might be directing the third film./blockquote>I was never a fan of TinTin, but it still registered on my radar. I had no idea it had enough of a following to justify a movie with such big names behind it.
Are you looking forward to this because Spielberg and Jackson are directing the first two chapters?
Or are you looking forward to it because it is a TinTin Movie?Or did you just Google TinTin to find out what it is all about?
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I fail to see the part where we discourage people from enjoying any movie they want. We are a movie pundit site. We talk about movies. This TinTin production is going to be a movie.
Those who choose to disregard it because they are unfamiliar with the source material can choose to do so. That is their call.
I even admitted I was only vaguely familiar with the comics. But didn’t say that would make it a crap movie. As well, I am not a “hollywood induced worker” North America is Hollywood induced. Sorry that mainstream doesn’t include the obscure and interesting parts of other cultures. If it did, they wouldn’t be obscure and interesting.
I don’t see the issue here.
I’m all about opinion and whatnot.. epecially for movies. But the line separating opinion and obsession for a certain topic is often blurred. The tendancy to report on things that is “popular” rather than “interesting” is typical of hollywood-induced workers, like yourselves, therefore making you ignorant of what is interesting rather than popular. Not difficult and certainly not hard to come to grips with.
And yet… we continue to make movies on 2000+ myths of Achilles, Leonidas, Maximus, Alexander, but can’t spend the time to appreciate a 70 year old comic. Good one.
I’d like to get the cartoon box set on DVD from Ebay someday. It’s not *horribly* expensive – only about 50-70 bucks.
Someone mentioned this being like Young Indiana Jones – it’s totally true what they said.
I really can’t wait for this movie – I just wish they could use the same voice actor they used for the cartoon series.
There’s something for lazy peeps, and nah it’s not spoiler it’s opening theme of animated TinTin series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlvKIq9auP0
North Europe agrees, TinTin is huge in europe ^^. In Finland when you go to library and check the “returned books” for some fairly hard to get popular books you pretty much always find some TinTin’s adventures among them.
Anywho I wonder how Spielberg and Jackson are going to work this one. There was one live action movie made back in 1961 from “Tin Tin in Istanbul”.
I think some people need to calm down here. Speaking as an English guy with an American wife, it has become obvious to me that most Americans don’t have a great idea what goes on outside their country (her family proved this more than she does, being an ex-pat).
HOWEVER… people forget that Europeans are exposed to more countries than Americans since the average Belgian has easy access to several just by getting into the car. That applies to Asian and ex-Eastern Bloc countries too. With the British, we’re an island, we have to look outside, because there isn’t that much going on in our little group of countries.
America is bleedin’ huge! Just because the US is one big country, don’t forget how big it is! It’s pretty much its own sub continent! And trust me, New York is as alien to Alaska is to Ohio as France is different to Russia and China. Yet they are share continents.
It’s ignorant to think a film shouldn’t be made just because you’ve never heard of it. But if you choose not to go see it when it’s made, fine. Personally, I think anyone who enjoyed the Indy Jones films will like this series (if it’s done right). But then I’ve never seen, nor do I intend to see, a Harry Potter movie in my lifetime, as I have no interest.
Everyone else… if Americans haven’t heard of something produced outside their country, why be surprised? I’ve never heard of most of the Saturday Night Live references my wife makes, or the kids show with Mr. Rogers, or any of the country songs which light up the charts in the Midwest. Doesn’t make me ignorant, just someone unexposed to that stuff.
yaj, go belgium!
sweet…i used to watch the tin tin serious on the family channel a long ways back…gool ol fashioned action for the whole family. good to see competent people behind
I watched TinTin ALLLLL the time on Nick Jr. back when I was a kid and I freaking LOVED it.
My friend has virtually all the TinTin comics and I’ve read some of them and they are really good.
I’m pretty excited about the movie even though most people here in the U.S. have probably never heard of it. And to the dude who said “screw this” in regards to it not being known to him – dude, grow up.
I see. We are ignorant and limited because we write about our opinions on what is actually happening in Hollywood.
We should LIMIT what we cover because it might hit on topics you don’t like?
This is your definition of ignorance?
Also, your idea of original ideas is to make a movie out of a 70 year old comic strip. That’s original?
Its ignorant in the fact that some say screw the making of the movie because its not popular this side of the pond and that you’ve never heard of it, so lets not give it a chance. You guys need to open your minds, so how about limiting your posts on transformers (and stupid things like “an email to whatshisface to fix up the sequel because we’re so ungrateful for the last one”) and broadening your horizon to non-mainstream movies.
Ohhhhkaaay….
Continue making “hit” sequels on shit like Alien v. Predator, Spiderman, American Pie, Deuce Bigalow, Bachelor Party (what the eff is this shit), Harold and Kumar, and a whole lot more, because you know, these guys gleem with original ideas and innovation.
Rodney, I think he was getting at that it’s ignorant to not want this made into a movie because it’s not popular in America, in reply to a guy above who said that. Not that Americans have never heard of it.
TinTin was a french newspaper strip by Belgian artist Hergé that started in 1929. He died in 1983.
Regardless of how many countless strips this had, it was in majority a European comic strip translated from French.
Again, how is it ignorant that the majority of the North American public wouldn’t know about this? That’s right. Because of all the multitude of topics we write about on this site, we only know about Transformers.
Make all the assumptions you want about North American ignorance, but the fact remains that it was never as popular here as it was in Europe.
Jackson and Spielberg will make sure we know what it is soon.
What’s that word? Self Centered? Egocentric? Perhaps a little more looking outward is required to realize that hey, a whole BIGGER world exists OUTSIDE America. It’s obvious a lot of you don’t even have a clue how huge Tintin is. And it is HUGE. Perhaps the involvement of names like Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg ought to have been a clue. Jeez.
“what the eff is TinTin??… not a good sign. Screw this.”
And THAT’S why we keep getting remakes and sequels and nothing new is ever tried out, is cause of attitudes like that. It’s people like you, that make the Studios put out the shit they do, and refrain from trying to be bold and new.
Wow, I can’t believe the number of people who have never heard of Tin Tin. It was a cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and I remember watching it every day, and ever other kid I knew watched it just as much. I don’t know where you guys all live, but I live in Canada, don’t know if it was bigger here then in the U.S. or something, but everyone I know on the net has never heard of it but everyone I know put in the real world remembers the cartoon fondly from childhood, and it was quite huge with everyone I know. Weird.
Ummm, weird the last sentence of the second paragraph was suppose to be the last sentence of the last paragraph in my previous post above. That’s all I wanted to say.
I have read every Tintin comic that was translated into English. They’re quite genius, and my fellow Americans need to go out and read some of them immediately. It’s a very witty blend of geopolitical drama, slapstick humor, supernatural adventure, and pulp comic archetypes. They’re both funny and thrilling, and have some absolutely brilliant characters. Check them out.
Typical north american responses from the lot of you.. “what is tintin?” Everyone across the atlantic, including south africa, knows what tintin is, and to hear that they are making a movie out of this character is siick. Maybe if you immersed yourself in stuff other than transformers you’d get an idea of what tintin is all about.. just maybe.
If I have to ask…what the eff is TinTin??… not a good sign. Screw this.
Djimon Honsou is directing the third…
Well, As a french speaking guy from Quebec, I can say that Tintin has been a part of my childhood and even being over 30, I still enjoy those stories as much as when I was a kid. Like others have said, I think that in the french community and probably in most of Europe, it most be the most influencial comic character ever created. I still have all the Tintin books at my parents’ and everytime I go see them, at some point, I take a Tintin and start reading it, as it brings me back to my childhood!!
I don’t know if PJ or SS will succeed in bringing Tintin to life but, it has everything to work. Great characters, great humor, lots of adventure, a little of surnatural. Everything to make it work!
of all the franchises to dedicate such serious talent to….
blech.
Tintin is not only very popular in Europe; here, in Sudamerica his fame is tremendous; In the USA, maybe is less known because the proliferation of vernacular comics, the economical protection of the industry and the prejudges to the european cultural products, but Tintin have an enormous potential to attract the fans of adventures. Further is a magnificient work of art, and maybe the most notorious comic character, beside the french Asterix and Obelix, ever created in Europe. (sorry for the possible gramatical and syntactical faults, i’m not accustomed to write in english)
I hope Spielberg explains a lot about this character on the screen. A lot of us over here don’t know who/what Tin Tin is. We know the dog Rin Tin Tin but not no Tin Tin.
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I second that, Tin Tin is HUGE in Europe. It’s probably a bit like THE SMURFS, who are also much more popular in the old country than in the US.
By the way, the dog was called “Struppi” in the german version.
I’m really curious about this project.
Obviously because of Spielberg and Jackson, but also because of the property as well.
Tin Tin is one of the biggest and influential projects in the history of comics and I loved the books as a kid and they posses a timeless quality. In Spielberg’s hands, this will probably turn out to be a bit like ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDY.
I hope they can turn this into exciting adventure movies without going crazy with big CGI-creatures and monsters. The comics never were about that. They were always about exotic locations, but didn’t cross over into the supernatural too much.
Tin Tin himself is a tricky part too play though. While he works in the comics, he has the tendency to come across kind of strange in life-action I suppose.
Maybe Freddie Highmore could play him. Or Daniel Radcliffe (just kidding).
I’m looking forward to this.
Tintin is actually super popular in Europe. It’s creator is Belgian and thus is particularly recognized amongst French speakers though the comics have been translated into many different languages. I liked the comics and the cartoons as a kid growing up in Quebec. I’m not surprised that the rest of North America has not heard much of Tintin.
Kind of reminds me of the Rain post. Never heard of him so he must not be popular…wrong (crazy popular singer/actor in South Korea). Same thing with Tintin. Maybe this blog could use another blogger who’s more aware of pop culture, actors and movies from outside of Hollywood. It could be a fun movie with nice scenery trekking around Europe.
Now as for my thoughts of a live action Tintin movie…it definitely could work but I really liked the cartoons. It does have a nice combination of adventure and silly somewhat predictable humor. Personally I’ve always liked the dog named “Snow” in English or “Milou” in French.
First thought that came to mind was, “what the hell is Tin Tin?”. Then I proceeded directly to Google…Yea, no interest what so ever.