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Fifteen years after the Steven Spielberg-directed animated “The Adventures of Tintin” film hit cinemas, it looks like something is finally happening on the sequel front.
Filmmaker Peter Jackson is attending the Cannes Film Festival this week and received an honorary Palme d’Or at the festival’s opening ceremony last night. He confirmed he’s been working on the script for the sequel this week.
Appearing at a Rendezvous session at the festival, discussing his career and upcoming works, he says (via Screen Daily:
“I’ve been working with Fran [Walsh, Jackson’s partner] on another Tintin script, I was writing it in the hotel room here. It’s an active real thing, and I’m getting back into the Tintin world, and I actually love it.”
Jackson and Spielberg famously made a pact years ago, which would see Spielberg direct and Jackson produce the first film, then Jackson direct and Spielberg produce the second, with a third potentially being co-directed by the pair.
Jackson says he remains very aware of that pact and his obligation:
“The deal was that Steven directs one and I direct another. Steven did his film, then for 15 years [later] I haven’t made mine. I feel very awkward about that.”
He also adds that he’d like to make a film about Operation Chastise (aka the Dambusters Raid). He also had a take on AI use in film:
“I don’t dislike it at all, to me it’s just a special effect. The only thing with AI that’s critical is you don’t AI an actor or somebody without their approval. Just as you can’t adapt a book that somebody has written without owning the rights to the book.”
The 2011 film, which grossed $374 million from a $135 million budget, was based on an amalgamation of three Tintin books – “The Crab with the Golden Claws,” “The Secret of the Unicorn” and “Red Rackham’s Treasure” – though also did its own original spin on that.
It’s widely assumed a sequel would be based on “The Seven Crystal Balls”/”Prisoners of the Sun” two-parter but Jackson hasn’t confirmed which story or stories they are adapting for the work.
Jackson and Walsh writing the script marks a change from the first film, which combined three famed English creative talents – “Sherlock” co-creator and former “Doctor Who” showrunner Steven Moffat, “Attack the Block” filmmaker Joe Cornish, and the one and only “Hot Fuzz” and “Shaun of the Dead” helmer Edgar Wright
A script is also a long way from a film being greenlit for production but this marks the first serious movement on the project in many years.
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