08 April 2009

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Bring Tintin Adventures to the Big Screen

The First of Three High-Budget, High-Tech Tintin Films Premieres in 2011

Steven Spielberg, whose characters range from Indiana Jones to Private Ryan, has dream-teamed with Peter Jackson, who brought the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to the screen three times (and will return to Middle Earth as producer of two films of The Hobbit), to lens three adventures of Tintin, the most famous comic book character most Americans have never heard of.

Tintin is about to become as big a celebrity in the US, as he is in many other countries, since these two Hollywood legends are throwing amazing technology (and even more amazing sums of money) into a motion-capture trilogy for which the technology of the trans-Pacific collaboration itself is as complex as that of the film.

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