Paramount Pictures will be releasing The Adventures of Tintin in 3D on December 23rd of this year, and what better way to promote the film than to take it to San Diego Comic-Con with the presence of the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, doing his first Comic-Con appearance, along with producer Peter Jackson.
Needless to say, Hall H was packed up to the last seat on this day, and the panel kicked off with a montage of Spielberg’s movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Indiana Jones, Jaws, E.T, etc. Followed by an introduction by Eddie Ibrahim, director of programming for Comic-Con, who announced that Steven Spielberg won the Comic-Con’s Inkpot award for film and pop culture. As Spielberg walked to the podium, there was a standing ovation from the audience, and upon receiving the award, he thanked the fans for their support for his films and for “staying kids no matter what your age is”.
After receiving the award, a test reel of Tintin was shown in which a particular someone that goes by the name of Peter Jackson, was trying out for the part of Captain Haddock. The clip was hilarious, watching Jackson play a drunk Captain Haddock by a pier, explaining to the camera why should he be the one to play him, so drunk that he didn’t even notice that Snowy (the white Fox terrier in the movie) was drinking from his bottle, was also drunk and fell into the sea. As the clip was over, Peter Jackson was brought on stage as well and the crowd went crazy!
Moreover, Spielberg and Jackson talked about them reading the original “The Adventures of Tintin” stories written by Georges Remi, who goes by the penname of Herge, agreeing that Tintin is way more popular in Europe than in America. Spielberg said how he learned about the story back in the 1980’s when he was in France and picked up the book and started to read. Even though, Spielberg didn’t know any French, he said how the pictures were so great that he could follow the story and he loved it, since then he has been wanting to do a film about it, but it wasn’t until the release of Avatar that he was exposed to performance capture and decided this was the time to do it. Jackson said how he read Tintin when he was a child and looked at it as “the older brother he never had” , fantasizing about Tintin’s adventures that he dreamed of having. He said that Herge’s books are more like storyboards and they are very easy to follow, and how once you begin to read the story people would realize how exciting it is.
The Adventures of Tintin was all filmed in performance capture, Spielberg likes the fact that you can see some of the actors features being animated, in my opinion I think it was a great approach for the film because it gives Tintin a more real feel and it won’t look like a kids movie.From the 2nd clip that was shown in Hall H, it seems like Tintin will be a very live action film, there’s mystery, suspense, explosions and it will appeal to kids, people who have read the story as well as people who have never heard of it before. I love Steven Spielberg’s movies and I’m really excited to see how he adapts Tintin and what he brings to the screen with performance capture that seems to be changing or in a way, enhancing animated movies in the future.
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