Peter Jackson reports that the principal shooting on the Tintin movie is completed – however, we shouldn’t get too excited just yet because he adds that it will probably be another couple of years for the effects and the computer animation to be completed. I’d imagine animating Tintin’s famous quiff alone will occupy some digital animators for months. At the moment the Spielberg-Jackson Tintin flick is scheduled for a release in 2011.
(Tintin byHergé, (c) Moulinsart)
The Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director is in London for the premiere of his new movie, The Lovely Bones; talking to the BBC he also revealed he had been scouting locations for the Guillermo Del Toro Hobbit film just before flying over and that despite being helmed by another director they were working closely together on the writing and that the Hobbit would have a continuity with the world he established in LOTR: “We’re writing Ian McKellen’s dialogue just the same as we did in Lord Of The Rings. But Guillermo, being the director, will obviously take the script and interpret that and shoot his film. So that’ll be interesting to see.” Jackson also added that the Hobbit will not jump on the current Hollywood bandwagon of 3D, stating that Del Toro wanted to stick with “35mm, old-fashioned film, which suits me, because he wants to keep it in the same space as the original trilogy.”
(Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf, (c) Tolkien Estate/New Line)
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
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