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<\/a>Remember how Steven Spielberg was reportedly going to make a live-action version of the Tintin<\/a><\/i> comic books? It turns out his plans were a little more complicated than that. Variety<\/a><\/i> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi\u2019s beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks. Pics will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.<\/p>\n
The two filmmakers will each direct at least one of the movies; studio wouldn\u2019t say which director would helm the third. Kathleen Kennedy joins Spielberg and Jackson as a producer on the three films, which might be released through DreamWorks Animation. . . .<\/p>\n
Jackson\u2019s New Zealand-based WETA Digital, the f\/x house behind \u201cThe Lord of the Rings<\/a>\u201d franchise, produced a 20-minute test reel bringing to life the characters created by Remi, who wrote under the pen name of Herge.<\/p>\n
\u201cHerge\u2019s characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we\u2019ve seen to date with computer animated characters,\u201d Spielberg said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want Tintin\u2019s adventures to have the reality of a live-action film, and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Herge created,\u201d Spielberg continued. . . .<\/p>\n
Jackson said WETA will stay true to Remi\u2019s original designs in bringing the cast of Tintin to life, but that the characters won\u2019t look cartoonish.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead,\u201d Jackson said, \u201cwe\u2019re making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people \u2013but real Herge people!\u201d . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m not sure what to make of this. As the documentary Tintin and Me<\/a><\/i> (2003) explains, Herg\u00e9 went to a lot of effort to make the backgrounds and environments in his comics as authentic and true-to-life as possible \u2014 but as Scott McCloud notes in his book Understanding Comics<\/a><\/i>, Herg\u00e9 also made the characters<\/i> rather simple and cartoonish, and so lacking<\/i> in detail that it allowed the reader to identify<\/i> with the characters and to enter into their subjective experience. It will be interesting to see how Spielberg and Jackson navigate their way through these aesthetic points.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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