Peter Jackson Will Direct “The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun”
With Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn opening tomorrow in some international markets, The Hollywood Reporter (via The Playlist) took the occasion to catch up with Spielberg and Peter Jackson, who acted as a producer on the film. Asked whether he would be directing the upcoming sequel, Jackson replied emphatically with a “yes.” While the plan had always been to have Spielberg direct the first movie and Jackson the second, it’s nice to get an official confirmation that he will indeed helm the Tintin follow-up after he finishes shooting The Hobbit.
Spielberg elaborated that Sony and Paramount have already commissioned a script and accompanying visual storyboards for the sequel. He explains that “the script is already written” by Anthony Horowitz, which will allow for production to move forward quickly once they get the green-light. Naturally, the studios are still waiting to see how the first movie fares with US audiences but early reviews have been nothing less than gushing with the film currently holding a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The sequel, which will be based on the 13th and 14th books, Prisoners of the Sun and The Seven Crystal Balls, is tentatively entitled The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun and the story will revolve around the iconic reporter investigating a mysterious illness that has struck seven explorers who unearthed the mummy of an ancient Incan. Check out the 40-minute TV animation of The Seven Crystal Balls below:
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Woooooo
He’s one busy guy!! Well I’m looking forward to both Tintin and The Hobbit, so yeah!!
Yep, both highly anticipated movies indeed.
Hopefully Peter will slow the action down a bit, ‘Tintin’ is the greatest movie of all-time…if your eight years of age. For anybody ten years or older it is, well, so in your face that at times you don’t know what the hell is happening, nor do you care, but I have faith that Jackson will correct the errors that Spielberg made.
We don’t know whether the first movie will be a big hit or not…and yet they already planned the second one…wow!!
That’s generally how these things go. It’s certainly not the first time it’s happened. Hell, they’ve greenlit another Mark Webb Spider-Man movie already, if memory serves.
Like you say, it’s strangely comforting to read the official announcement of this news. I’m really looking forward to Secret of the Unicorn at this point, and while my mind’s of course not made up this just kind of adds to that excitement nonetheless.
Yea I was a bit lukewarm to the first couple trailers of Secret of the Unicorn but I’m starting to really look forward to it at the end of the year.
I think its going to rule. I’m super excited for it to come out.
They’ve been saying P Jackson would helm #2 for a long time (at least since this summer at comic-con) but its nice to hear that scripts and storyboards are moving forward.
Although it didn’t seem to do “Star Trek 2″ any good (the last notable film I can recall that had a sequel greenlit before the first film even hit theatres)
Yea plus PJ is going to be busy with The Hobbit for quite some time so it’s not like he will be able to get started with the Tintin sequel anytime soon.
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