[Source: EmpireOnline.com] Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have chosen Empire to reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Headed our way next October, the film adapts the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form.
Our
exclusive and specially-Weta-created cover is a riff on the iconic
image of Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his dog Snowy picked out by a spotlight
as they are running. Then we have a couple of stills from the film, one
showing you Andy Serkis’ Captain Haddock and another with Haddock and
Tintin adrift at sea and signalling for help.
“With live action
you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and
Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them.
It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to
be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life,
keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like
Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”
So
what can we expect from the story? Here’s what Spielberg told us. “The
first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly
owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre —
some of our night scenes and our action scenes are very contrasty. But
at the same time the movie is a hell of an adventure.”
The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and
Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they
thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The
Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided
all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a
wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about
whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also
features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.
And
for those of you thinking really far ahead, what has Jackson got
planned for his Tintin adventure if and when the planned sequel happens?
“One of my favourites is The Seven Crystal Balls, so that’s the one
I’ve always been thinking of,” he says. “I also really like the Eastern
European ones, the Balkan ones like King Ottokar’s Sceptre and The
Calculus Affair. I think it’s a terrific setting for a thriller, the
weird Balkan politics and the mysterious secret service agents. I think
the Moon ones are terrific, but they’d be good for the third or fourth
Tintin film, if we get that far. We want to keep his feet on the ground
just a little bit longer.”
For much, much more from Spielberg, Jackson and their entire cast, pick up the new issue of Empire, today. Or better still, order your copy online now!
For much, much more from Spielberg, Jackson and their entire cast, pick up the new issue of Empire, today. Or better still, order your copy online now!
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