Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:OH GOD, I just remembered something that just completely takes the piss out of everything we've been talking about here. Especially all of us who's been talking about what is kickass material for him, and me saying that he'll only do what's challenging.
Steven Spielberg was at one time, trying to turn the Tin Tin comics into a film - with him directing I believe.
Go home everyone. This argument/debate/war whatever has been a complete embaressment and an abomination.
We ALL fucked up!
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:OH GOD, I just remembered something that just completely takes the piss out of everything we've been talking about here. Especially all of us who's been talking about what is kickass material for him, and me saying that he'll only do what's challenging.
Steven Spielberg was at one time, trying to turn the Tin Tin comics into a film - with him directing I believe.
Go home everyone. This argument/debate/war whatever has been a complete embaressment and an abomination.
We ALL fucked up!
Evil Hobbit wrote:Hmm, Tin Tin is so amazing and so totally in the kind of adventurous stuff that Spielberg handled so great in the Indy films. He just have to direct it. How sweet would the John Williams music be for a Tin Tin film. Hmmmmm.
minstrel wrote:Evil Hobbit wrote:Hmm, Tin Tin is so amazing and so totally in the kind of adventurous stuff that Spielberg handled so great in the Indy films. He just have to direct it. How sweet would the John Williams music be for a Tin Tin film. Hmmmmm.
Oh please God no John Williams ...
I've seriously had enough of his predictable pompous tripe. It's time for Spielberg to give a younger, more original, more vital composer a chance.
Evil Hobbit wrote:minstrel wrote:Evil Hobbit wrote:Hmm, Tin Tin is so amazing and so totally in the kind of adventurous stuff that Spielberg handled so great in the Indy films. He just have to direct it. How sweet would the John Williams music be for a Tin Tin film. Hmmmmm.
Oh please God no John Williams ...
I've seriously had enough of his predictable pompous tripe. It's time for Spielberg to give a younger, more original, more vital composer a chance.
THIS IS BLASPHEMY THIS IS MADNESSSS!!! Kssjt
minstrel wrote:Evil Hobbit wrote:minstrel wrote:Evil Hobbit wrote:Hmm, Tin Tin is so amazing and so totally in the kind of adventurous stuff that Spielberg handled so great in the Indy films. He just have to direct it. How sweet would the John Williams music be for a Tin Tin film. Hmmmmm.
Oh please God no John Williams ...
I've seriously had enough of his predictable pompous tripe. It's time for Spielberg to give a younger, more original, more vital composer a chance.
THIS IS BLASPHEMY THIS IS MADNESSSS!!! Kssjt
Are you suggesting that Hans Zimmer is younger, more original, and more vital than John Williams? Younger, ok. But Zimmer isn't what I had in mind.
I'm not sure I had anyone specific in mind, actually. Just not John Boring Williams all the time.
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks, reports Variety. The films will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.
The two filmmakers will each direct at least one of the movies; the studio wouldn't say which director would helm the third. Kathleen Kennedy joins Spielberg and Jackson as a producer on the three films, which might be released through DreamWorks Animation.
Tintin has long been a passion project for Spielberg, who has been trying to get film rights to the comedic and adventurous book series for more than 25 years, a goal realized over the past year. With the rights in place, Spielberg, Jackson and DreamWorks began quietly developing the project.
Jackson's New Zealand-based WETA Digital, the f/x house behind "The Lord of the Rings" franchise, produced a 20-minute test reel bringing to life the characters created by Remi, who wrote under the pen name of Hergé.
"Hergé's characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we've seen to date with computer animated characters," Spielberg said.
"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 honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Hergé created," Spielberg continued.
Official word of the three-pic pact comes just weeks after Jackson inked a deal with DreamWorks to direct The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's haunting tome about a 14-year-old girl who watches over her family -- and attacker -- from heaven after she is raped and killed.
The Spielberg-Jackson project isn't likely to languish in development for long. Spielberg could become available this fall after wrapping Indiana Jones 4. Jackson will wrap "Bones" by the end of the year.
Spielberg and Jackson have selected three stories from Remi's "The Adventures of Tintin" series, which encompassed 23 books published between 1929 and 1976. The series still attracts 2 million new fans a year.
Series, which has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, chronicles adventures of a junior reporter who will follows stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.
Jackson said 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.
"Instead," Jackson said, "we're making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people --but real Hergé people!"
Great Script, But What If wrote:Do you have a link to the original article?
Great Script, But What If wrote:Ah, ok, here's the original article from Variety:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
thedoglippedone wrote:
As for the three films, I'd want them to go with Cigars of the Pharaoh, The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet, this would make a great trilogy, with egyptian curses, opium crimelords, Chang's introduction and then his disappearance and Yeti's in Tibet. However, Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins do not feature that much in these stories.
thedoglippedone wrote:They are more likely to go with the Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun - another good set of films with loads of cool sequences ( Inca mummies, the shark sub etc ) that would be easier to do as Photo-real CGI from the off than fit it round live action.
tapehead wrote:
no?
doglips wrote:Rastapopulous goes into a frenzy and injects himself after the millionaire he is trying to extract bank detail info from simply recounts all the bad deeds from his past.
thebostonlocksmith wrote:I remember Tin Tin was on during the summer holidays when i was a kid and it used to bore me rigid, a bit like Rupert the bear...
burlivesleftnut wrote:Hmm, I know nothing about Tin Tin really, but with both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg involved, doesn't this have the chance to be the most boring, overlong, overly-melodramatic and thoroughly-lacking-any-subtext-whatsoever movie ever made?
burlivesleftnut wrote:Hmm, I know nothing about Tin Tin really, but with both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg involved, doesn't this have the chance to be the most boring, overlong, overly-melodramatic and thoroughly-lacking-any-subtext-whatsoever movie ever made?
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:burlivesleftnut wrote:Hmm, I know nothing about Tin Tin really, but with both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg involved, doesn't this have the chance to be the most boring, overlong, overly-melodramatic and thoroughly-lacking-any-subtext-whatsoever movie ever made?
Perhaps, eh? But I'm a gonna to look a forward to a the scene where a the Captain Haddock, he caresses a the face of a the Sumatran Rat Monkey, eh? Alla the while where a the John Williams' plays his a "Wonder of a the Child" music, no?
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:burlivesleftnut wrote:Hmm, I know nothing about Tin Tin really, but with both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg involved, doesn't this have the chance to be the most boring, overlong, overly-melodramatic and thoroughly-lacking-any-subtext-whatsoever movie ever made?
Perhaps, eh? But I'm a gonna to look a forward to a the scene where a the Captain Haddock, he caresses a the face of a the Sumatran Rat Monkey, eh? Alla the while where a the John Williams' plays his a "Wonder of a the Child" music, no?
burlivesleftnut wrote:Hmm, I know nothing about Tin Tin really, but with both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg involved, doesn't this have the chance to be the most boring, overlong, overly-melodramatic and thoroughly-lacking-any-subtext-whatsoever movie ever made?
Yahoo wrote:'Tintin in the Congo' sales soar in Britain after racism row
Sat Jul 14, 4:38 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed since Britain's Commission for Racial Equality claimed it was racist, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Sales of "Tintin in the Congo" have shot up by 3,800 percent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph.
The comic has reached number eight on Internet retailer Amazon's most popular books list, the broadsheet reported.
A CRE spokesman accepted that its interjection could have sparked the rise in sales.
"It is a delicate balance but because we had a complaint from a member of the public we felt we had no choice," he said, according to the newspaper.
Borders, a British chain of bookstores, said Wednesday it had yanked copies of "Tintin in the Congo" from its children's sections following the CRE saying that it "beggared belief" that they should sell the comic.
"This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles," a CRE spokeswoman had said.
"How and why do Borders think that it's okay to peddle such racist material?"
The CRE said it was contacted by a Borders customer last month who saw the book on sale in London.
"Tintin in the Congo", which first appeared in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as a comic strip in 1930-1931, is part of the series "The Adventures of Tintin" by the Belgian author and illustrator Herge.
But its tale of boy reporter Tintin's trip with his dog Snowy to what was then the Belgian Congo is seen as controversial by some because of its depiction of colonialism and racism, as well as casual violence towards animals.
Herge later said the book was merely a reflection of the naive views of the time. Some of the scenes were revised for later editions.
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