Spielberg still directing first Tintin
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Steven Spielberg will be in the director's chair. (Getty Images: Evan Agostini)
Although Brussels' Herge Studios seems to think otherwise, Steven Spielberg remains committed to directing the first in a planned Tintin trilogy for DreamWorks.
It will be his next directing effort after this year's Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, which has grossed $US780 million worldwide.
Herge Studios, which holds the rights to the iconic comic strip character, said yesterday that Peter Jackson was moving into the director's chair for the first film. But both Jackson's and Spielberg's representatives say that Jackson will direct the sequel and serve as a producer on the first film.
In the meantime, Jackson will finish postproduction on The Lovely Bones for DreamWorks/Paramount before moving on to co-write the two Hobbit movies for New Line and MGM.
The first Tintin feature will be based on two books - The Secret Of The Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure, written by Tintin creator Herge - the pen name of Belgian artist Georges Remi - between 1942 and 1944.
The film - scripted by Stephen Moffat, a writer on the British sci-fi series Doctor Who - will be animated with motion-capture technology.
It stars 18-year-old Thomas Sangster as the title character and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings triology, as Tintin's friend Captain Haddock.
- Reuters
