Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock in Tintin

Posted on December 17, 2007
Filed Under Actors, Directors, News

Hi and welcome back to another beautiful week here at Moviemind News. It’s monday and we are all just a tad bit disappointed the weekend didn’t last longer but… I’m gonna give you an update on one of the largest movie project in the makings. I posted about Tintin about 6 months ago and now, just to make you happy, I’ve got an update:

The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Andy Serkis is reteaming with director Peter Jackson in “Tintin,” the movie trilogy collaboration from Jackson and Steven Spielberg.

Although DreamWorks would not confirm, it is believed Serkis will play the role of Capt. Haddock, the temperamental sea captain from the comic strip created by Herge.

In the comics, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy and later accompanied by characters like Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson. The books, hugely popular in Europe, have been translated into 50 languages with more than 200 million sold.

Kathleen Kennedy is producing the three feature films, which will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D. Jackson and Spielberg are each directing an installment, with the director of the third movie yet to be determined.

Personally I’m a bit curious about the third director. Judging by the caliber of the first two I’m guessing it’s another sci-fi freindly, big budget name… James Cameron?

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