Tintin Teaser
The teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s 3-D performance-capture adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin, has just been released on the Web. Starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Defiance) as boy reporter Tintin, with Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Defiance) as the pirate, Red Rackham, it is based on the first two books in Belgian artist Georges “Hergé” Remi’s Tintin comic series, Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure. The first in a planned trilogy, the series is a joint project between Spielberg and Peter Jackson, who will direct the second in the series.
Watch it below, or go to Apple’s trailer page to view it in HD.
It’s currently scheduled to be released on Dec. 23, but another major Spielberg project, War Horse, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, is scheduled for the following week, so that could change.
Official Web site: TinTin.com
Little, Brown plans to publish junior novel and young reader tie-ins, using stills from the movie, rather than Herge’s original art.
In addition, LBYR is releasing new “Young Readers Editions” of the Tintin books, with original story and art, plus background material, beginning with the following this month (full list of titles available here).
We can safely assume that, as part of the series, the filmmakers do not plan to adapt the controversial Tintin in the Congo, widely regarded as not only racist, but condoning animal cruelty. In print, it is only available in the US as part of a $150 “Collectors Edition” complete set.
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