For this film fan, it is always a good year when their is a new Steven Spielberg picture on the horizon. Thankfully 2011 is one of those years.
After a few years away, Mr Spielberg is back and he is back with some tricks up his sleeve.
Suitably impressed with the technology created by James Cameron for Avatar, Spielberg and fellow filmmaker Peter Jackson have decided to embark on a mission…together. Together they will create – via state-of-the-art motion capture and 3D technology – the world of Herge’s Tintin.
Spielberg will direct the first instalment, Jackson will direct the second and the third spot has yet to be filled.
Behind the camera are a team of superb writers – Joe Cornish, Edgar Wright and Stephen Moffat.
Donning the leotards and having their motion captured are Jamie Bell (Tintin), Daniel Craig (Captain Haddock) and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (the professor twins).
A brief teaser trailer has now been released, giving audiences their first look at this hybrid world – I for one think it looks superb (even more so in knowing we haven’t seen anything yet). Some grumpy Internet bloggers have berated the teaser and moaned that we see none of the characters talking; as if Spielberg and Co are hiding their failure. To the contrary, I think they know they have got something special and don’t want us to see it yet – remember the rumblings of a flop after the first Avatar trailer?! Look what happened there.
Whatever the comments may be, Tintin is one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year for me.
See the teaser trailer at apple.com/trailers and the film is out in the UK in October.
