Oscar-winning filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss the motion capture film, The Adventures of Tintin, and Spielberg revealed Tintin marks the first time in his career he’s worked so closely with a producer (Jackson) throughout the process.
Spielberg’s been interested in bringing Hergé’s popular Tintin books to the big screen since being turned on to them in 1983 after the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark. French coverage of his Raiders film referenced the Tintin books, and once Spielberg read Hergé’s stories, he was hooked.
Peter Jackson had been following the news of Spielberg’s interest in doing a Tintin film for years, but the two didn’t actually meet until at the 2004 Academy Awards (the year Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King scooped up 11 Oscars, including one for Best Director). Together for this interview, Jackson and Spielberg talk about the creative process and why they decided to do Tintin as a motion capture film.
Official Synopsis: Based on the internationally beloved and irrepressible characters created by Hergé, the story follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin finds himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig), a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless treasure tied to a dastardly pirate named Red Rackham.
But with the help of his dog Snowy, the salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), and the bumbling detectives Thompson & Thomson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), Tintin will travel half the world, outwitting and outrunning his enemies in a breathless chase to find the final resting place of The Unicorn, a shipwreck that may hold the key to a vast fortune . . . and an ancient curse.
From the high seas to the sands of North African deserts, every new twist and turn sweeps Tintin and his friends to escalating levels of thrills and peril, proving that when you dare to risk everything, there’s no limit to what you can do.
