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Your First Look at Spielberg and Jackson's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Celebrities Are Better than You | Comments (15)

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There are Tintin comic books in my home. There’s a Tintin poster hanging on a wall in my house. But I will concede my general lack of knowledge. Mrs. Pajiba-hyphenate is a huge fan, although she’s certainly concerned about the big-screen adaptation, tackled by Messrs. Spielberg and Jackson. Here’s your first look, from Empire magazine.

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Doesn’t tell us a lot, except that it’s motion capture, and as motion capture goes, it doesn’t look particularly exciting. But, the movie will do gangbusters in Europe, where Tintin is very popular, and will likely do well enough in America next year, if only because of Jackson and Spielberg’s presence.

(Source: Empire)









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Comments

Hmm! Not a lot to go on there. Snowy looks very one-D in that pic.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 1, 2010 11:39 AM

There are Tintin comic books in my home. There’s a Tintin poster hanging on a wall in my house.
ME TOO! But I actually am a huge fan. Like I've even read Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. And I've read a bunch of them in french. Those books basically were my childhood. If I ever get a dog, I'm naming it Jolyon Wagg. So I'm very concerned about this movie. But And the weirdness of Captain Haddock's hair. Really, though, these pictures are fairly minor. What will matter to me in the long run is how they do the Thom(p)sons.

"No, without a 'p', as in 'Venezuela!'"

Posted by: esme at November 1, 2010 11:48 AM

Yeah, I want to see more of the doggie. He's the cutest part.

(I had a couple of Tintin books in my youth - no idea where they came from, and I don't remember much about them except that I like the dog.)

Posted by: MM at November 1, 2010 11:50 AM

I wasn't remotely interested until I saw the cast includes Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Daniel Craig, and Cary Elwes.

Posted by: MonkeyHateClean at November 1, 2010 11:52 AM

As long as Snowy goes "woah woah" and not "woof woof," we're good here.

Posted by: coveredinbees at November 1, 2010 12:23 PM

You didn't even post the best pic, but even still it looks great. Look at how beautiful the water is rendered.

This movie will look fantastic. Better than Avatar.

Posted by: oh boy at November 1, 2010 12:24 PM

So long as everyone involved in the production is drunk for its entirety, I'm in.

Posted by: The_wakeful at November 1, 2010 12:31 PM

Better than Avatar.

That's setting the bar very, very, extremely and outrageously low.

Posted by: coveredinbees at November 1, 2010 1:02 PM

The water does look nice, but that doesn't cut it anymore. Anything non-living can be done pretty photo-realistically at this point, it's the dead eyed attempts at realistic humans that fall flat. That's why Pixar's humans are always exaggerated in some way. But you have to give Senor Spielbergo and Jackson the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: e at November 1, 2010 1:42 PM

Heeey, the title is wrong. The screen shots aren't from The Secret of the Unicorn, but from The Red Sea Sharks. How dare they!

And yes, I am commenting just to show off how much of a Tintin geek I am.

Posted by: SpacemanSpiff at November 1, 2010 3:56 PM

I'll be happy as long as there's no fucking Betty White cameo.

Am I right, guys? Hah! Right? Am I right?

Posted by: sars at November 1, 2010 5:39 PM

So unnecessary. I can't imagine what Thomson and Thompson (not a typo) will look like. Well, at least they're not adapting the one where he's in the Congo, even if we do own (among some others) a poster with a picture from that one. Even if Herge did make amends, that would be an awkward adaptation.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at November 1, 2010 6:55 PM

Oh that just looks fucking hideous. WHY. Why not just make it live action or animated? Why this halfassed shit? Why do people still trying to make motion capture happen?! WHY! WHY! ARGH.

Posted by: figgy at November 1, 2010 7:35 PM

Finding out that English speakers call Milou "Snowy" is like finding out they call Flash McQueen "Lightning McQueen"...weird.

But seriously, how are they going to make Tin Tin not racist or Euro-centric? The whole series is based on Belgian colonialism. If I hadn't grown up with the comics, I would never go see this.

Posted by: Estelle at November 2, 2010 10:10 AM

Then the plane strafes them with machine-gun fire. Classic.

Posted by: Brenton at November 2, 2010 11:12 PM