On 16 May, news came out about the proposed Tintin movies. Steven Spielberg announced on 14 May that he and Peter Jackson had signed on to make three films about Tintin.
Both directors will each make a feature based on a different Tintin adventure and a third director, yet to be named, will direct the final film.
Spielberg told Variety magazine: "We want Tintin's adventures to have the reality of a live-action film, and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honour the distinctive look of the characters and world that Hergé created."
"We're making them look photo-realistic," said Spielberg. "The fibres of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people - but real Herge people."
Jackson says WETA will stay true to Remi's original designs in bringing the cast of Tintin to life, but that the characters won't look cartoonish. The pictures will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology. Jackson and Weta Digital, the team that created King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, have apparently already made a 20-minute test reel.
Variety says Spielberg has been trying to get the film rights to Tintin for 25 years. He realized that goal in the past year and since then he and Jackson have begun developing the project.
It has not been announced which of the Tintin stories will feature in the films but a rumour (I can’t find the reference) suggests that each film will feature stories from two books each.
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