By Six years on since our last update back in 2018 and… not much has changed with the sequel to 2011’s “The Adventures of Tintin”.
Nearly fifteen years ago, when Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” went into production, the plan was for Peter Jackson, the director of “The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit” trilogies, to direct the second before one or both of the pair would do a third film.
The first film released to positive reviews and a decent gross of $374 million from a $135 million budget. The sequel was announced but then it seemed to stall.
At last report back in 2018, the film was still happening with Jackson still attached to direct. Cut to this year and things haven’t moved it seems.
Actor Andy Serkis, who played Captain Haddock in the first film and is a long-time collaborator with Jackson, spoke at the Annecy Film Festival with reporter Alexandre Loos (via X) and dismissed speculation the film has been abandoned or ditched, saying Jackson: “is [still] definitely working on it.”
It’s expected the sequel will incorporate two of Herge’s books: “The Seven Crystal Balls” and “Prisoners of the Sun”. The two-part story is set a few months after seven professors return from a Peruvian expedition to discover Incan artifacts.
Someone begins putting each of them into a coma via crystal balls containing a powerful gaseous toxin. Tintin and Haddock race to save the professors and, later, their colleague Professor Calculus who is kidnapped.
The adventure takes them high into the Andes and the discovery of a lost Incan civilization.
How many of the original voice and mo-cap cast, like Jamie Bell, Serkis, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, will return is unclear at this time.
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