The rumour mill is working over time on the Tintin movie. Tom Hanks is the latest name linked to the role of Captain Haddock. Tom Hanks is one of the most famous and successful actors in Hollywood and has won two Oscars in an impressive movie career. The Tintin movie trilogy is to be brought to [...]
The view of many is that a Tintin movie should never be made even though those behind the project argue they will make a true recreation of the Tintin ligne claire style of the adventure comic written by Tintin’s creator Herge. Here is an argument to suggest a Tintin movie would never work [...]
Tintin merchandise is still very popular around the world. There are still over two million books sold annually worldwide. The total number of books sold since Remi created Tintin is estimated at 200 million books with four in ten homes in France owning at least one Tintin comic adventure. The [...]
Tintin the movie has led to may rumours. The facts we do know is that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are to direct two of the three films that will make up the Tintin trilogy. The first Tintin movie is due to be finished in production by the end of 2009 and rumours abound about who will play [...]
The upcoming Tintin Movie trilogy follows a recent trend over the last 5 years to turn popular/cult comics into movie. There reasons for this are that it allows movie studios to tap into existing audiences with fans of these comic characters along with the added benefit that the lead character of [...]
The story linking Thomas Sangster to the Tintin Movie first appeared from what I can tell in the British press in the form of a story in the Daily Mail that later gained slightly more credence when it appeared in the better thought of Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph wrote “Thomas Sangster, [...]
The Tintin movie is slowly building momentum and Spielberg and Jackson are quite deliberately putting in place the pieces needed to produce what most Tintin fans hope to be a wonderful recreation of their beloved Belgium boy detective. Nick Rodwell is the husband of Herge’s widow Fanny, the [...]