The Adventures of Tintin (film) explained

Director:Steven Spielberg
Screenplay:
Producer:
Starring:
Cinematography:Janusz Kamiński
Editing:Michael Kahn
Music:John Williams
Studio:
Distributor:
  • Paramount Pictures (Select territories)
  • Sony Pictures Releasing International (International)[1]
Runtime:107 minutes[2]
Country:
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • New Zealand
Language:English
Budget:$135 million[3]
Gross:$374 million

The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)[2] is a 2011 animated epic action-adventure film based on Hergé's comic book series of the same name. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, who produced the film with Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy. Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish wrote the screenplay for the film. It stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, Andy Serkis, and Daniel Craig.[4] [5] [6] In the film, Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock (Serkis) search for the treasure of the Unicorn, a ship once captained by Haddock's ancestor Sir Francis Haddock, but they face dangerous pursuit by Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Craig), who is the descendant of Sir Francis's nemesis Red Rackham.

Spielberg and Hergé admired each other's work; the director acquired the film rights to The Adventures of Tintin after the author's death in 1983, and re-optioned them in 2002. Filming was due to begin in October 2008 for a 2010 release, but the release was delayed to 2011 after Universal Pictures backed out of producing the film with Paramount Pictures, which had provided $30 million in pre-production; Columbia Pictures replaced Universal as co-financer. The delay resulted in Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who was originally cast as Tintin, departing and being replaced by Bell. The film draws inspiration from the Tintin volumes The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). Principal photography began in January 2009 and finished that July, with a combination of voice acting, motion capture and traditional computer animation being used.

The Adventures of Tintin premiered in Brussels, Hergé's home region, on 22 October 2011. It was theatrically released in Europe by Sony Pictures Releasing International on 26 October and in the United States by Paramount on 21 December 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D formats.[7] [8] The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the stylised motion capture animation (particularly the faithful character designs to Hergé's works), visual effects, action sequences, cast performances and musical score. The film was positively compared to Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The Adventures of Tintin was also a commercial success, grossing over $374 million, and received numerous awards and nominations, including being the first motion-captured animated film (and first non-Pixar film) to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film,[9] while John Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.[10] A sequel directed by Jackson has been announced, but has since stalled in development hell.

Plot

In a Post-war Brussels, Belgium, while browsing in an outdoor market with his pet dog Snowy, young journalist Tintin purchases a miniature model of a ship known as the Unicorn, but is accosted by an Interpol officer named Barnaby and a ship collector named Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, who both unsuccessfully attempt to purchase the model from Tintin. After Tintin takes the model home to his apartment, it gets accidentally broken during a chase between Snowy and a cat. A parchment scroll then slips out and rolls under a piece of furniture. Meanwhile, bumbling police detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of a pickpocket named Aristides Silk.

After visiting Maritime Library to uncover the history surrounding the Unicorn, Tintin returns to find the Unicorn has been stolen, suspecting Sakharine. He heads to Marlinspike Hall and accuses him of the theft, but noticing Sakharine's model is not broken he realizes there are two Unicorn models. Tintin then returns home to his apartment to find it ransacked. Snowy shows him the scroll, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Barnaby, who is then assassinated while attempting to recover the Unicorn. Tintin places the scroll in his wallet, but is pickpocketed by Silk the next morning.

Later, Tintin is abducted and imprisoned by accomplices of Sakharine on the SS Karaboudjan. He learns that Sakharine formed an alliance with the ship's staff and led a mutiny to take control. On board, Tintin meets Archibald Haddock, the ship's captain who is permanently drunk and unaware of most of his past. Tintin, Haddock and Snowy eventually outrun the crew, escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat, and attempt to use a second one to fake their deaths, but Sakharine sees through the ruse and sends a seaplane to find and capture them. Feeling cold and thirsty on the lifeboat ride, Haddock foolishly uses a stowaway bottle of scotch whisky to light a fire in the boat, accidentally causing a massive explosion that flips the boat upside down and leaves the trio stranded on top of it. The trio seizes the plane, and uses it to fly towards the fictitious Moroccan port of Bagghar. However, the seaplane crashes in a desert due to low fuel and a thunderstorm.

While trekking through the desert, Haddock hallucinates and remembers his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, the 17th-century captain of the Unicorn whose treasure-laden ship was attacked by the crew of a pirate ship, led by Red Rackham, later revealed to be Sakharine's ancestor. Sir Francis surrendered and eventually sank the Unicorn and most of the treasure, to prevent it from falling into Rackham's hands. The story implies there were three Unicorn models, each containing a scroll; together, the scrolls can reveal coordinates of the location of the sunken Unicorn and its treasure.

The third model is in Bagghar, possessed by Omar ben Salaad. Sakharine causes a distraction in a Bianca Castafiore concert that results in him stealing the third scroll. A chase through the city ensues during which he gains all the scrolls. Just as he is ready to give up, Tintin is persuaded by Haddock to continue. With help from Thomson and Thompson, Tintin and Haddock track Sakharine back to Brussels and set up a trap, but Sakharine uses his pistol to resist arrest. When his men fail to save him, Sakharine challenges Haddock to a sword fight with the cranes at the dock. Sakharine threatens to destroy the scrolls after Haddock corners him, but Tintin manages to snatch them from him. After the fight, Sakharine is pushed overboard by Haddock and then arrested by Thomson and Thompson.

Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are guided by the three scrolls back to Marlinspike Hall. Haddock notes a globe with an island he knows doesn't exist and presses it, causing the globe to open and reveal some of the treasure that Sir Francis had managed to recover along with his hat and a clue to the Unicorns location. The film ends with both men agreeing on setting up an expedition to find the shipwreck and the rest of the treasure.

Voice cast

Production

Development

In 1948, Hergé wrote to Walt Disney hoping to pitch The Adventures of Tintin into a potential animated feature in an effort to introduce the series to American audiences. The proposal fell through as Disney was busy working on Cinderella around that time, though Hergé did receive a Mickey Mouse trophy and a picture showing Tintin and Mickey shaking hands decades later.[19]

Steven Spielberg became an avid fan of The Adventures of Tintin in 1981 after a review compared Raiders of the Lost Ark to the comics.[20] Meanwhile, Hergé—who disliked the previous live-action film versions and the Hergé's Adventures of Tintin animated series—became a fan of Spielberg. Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion, recalled Hergé "thought Spielberg was the only person who could ever do Tintin justice".[21] Hergé had been looking to use the medium of film to make Tintin more current, as he felt that the animated films Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks had failed to capture the essence of the books.[22] Spielberg and his production partner Kathleen Kennedy of Amblin Entertainment were scheduled to meet with Hergé in 1983 while filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in London. Hergé died that week, but his widow Fanny Remi decided to give them the rights. A three-year-long option to film the comics was finalized in 1984, with Universal Pictures as distributor.

Spielberg commissioned E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial writer Melissa Mathison to script a film about Tintin battling ivory hunters in Africa. Spielberg saw Tintin as an "Indiana Jones for kids" and wanted Jack Nicholson to play Haddock.[23] Unsatisfied with the script, Spielberg continued production on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; the rights returned to the Hergé Foundation. Claude Berri and Roman Polanski became interested in filming the property, while Warner Bros. Pictures negotiated for the rights, but they could not guarantee the "creative integrity" that the Foundation found in Spielberg. In 2001, Spielberg revealed his interest in depicting Tintin with computer animation.[24] In November 2002, his studio DreamWorks Pictures reestablished the option to film the series.[25] Spielberg originally said he would only produce the film.[26] In 2004, French magazine Capital reported Spielberg was intending a trilogy based on The Secret of the Unicorn / Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun and The Blue Lotus / Tintin in Tibet (which are separate stories, but both feature Chang Chong-Chen).[27] By then, Spielberg had reverted to his idea of a live-action adaptation and called Peter Jackson to ask if Weta Digital would create a computer-generated Snowy.[28]

Jackson, a longtime fan of the comics,[29] had used motion capture in The Lord of the Rings and King Kong; he suggested that a live-action adaptation would not do justice to the comic books and that motion capture was instead the best way of representing Hergé's world of Tintin. A week of filming took place in November 2006 in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California, on the stage where James Cameron shot Avatar.[30] Andy Serkis had been cast, while Jackson stood in for Tintin. During the shoot, Cameron and Robert Zemeckis (who directed and produced motion-captured animated films) were present. The footage was transmitted to Weta Digital, who produced a twenty-minute test reel that demonstrated a photorealistic depiction of the characters. Spielberg said he would not mind filming it digitally because he saw it as an animated film, and reiterated his live-action work would always be filmed traditionally.[31] Lead designer Chris Guise visited Brussels to see the inspiration for Hergé's sceneries.[32]

An official announcement about the collaboration was made in May 2007, although both filmmakers had to wait to film it: Spielberg was preparing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull while Jackson was planning The Lovely Bones.[33] Spielberg had considered two books to become the main story, The Crab with the Golden Claws and The Secret of the Unicorn, with the main plot eventually following the latter and its immediate sequel, Red Rackham's Treasure. Jackson felt the former's story "wasn't really robust enough to sustain a feature film", but the filmmakers still included elements from the comic, such as the Karaboudjan and the first meeting of Tintin and Haddock. Spielberg invited Edgar Wright to write the script for the film, but Wright was busy and instead recommended other names, including Steven Moffat.[34] In October 2007, Moffat joined as the screenwriter for two of the Tintin films.[35] Moffat said he was "love bombed" by Spielberg into accepting the offer to write the films, with the director promising to shield him from studio interference with his writing.[36] Moffat finished a draft, but was unable to finish another due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. He then became executive producer of Doctor Who, leading Spielberg and Jackson (the latter being a fan of the show) to allow him to leave and fulfill his duty to the series.[37] Wright then returned and agreed to take over the script while Joe Cornish, a fan of Tintin with whom Wright was working at the time, also worked with him. After two drafts of the script, Wright left in order to begin filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World., with Cornish staying on to finish the script under the guidance of Spielberg and Jackson.

More filming took place in March 2008.[38] However, in August that year (a month before principal photography would have begun), Universal Pictures turned down their option to co-produce the film due to the poor box office performances of other recent motion-captured animated films, such as Monster House (2006) and Beowulf (2007), as well as Spielberg and Jackson's request for a combined 30% of the gross.[39] Paramount Pictures (DreamWorks' distributor) had hoped to partner with Universal on the project, having spent $30 million on pre-production. Spielberg gave a ten-minute presentation of footage, hoping they would approve filming to begin in October. Paramount, along with their subsidiary Nickelodeon Movies, offered to produce as long as the directors found a studio that was willing to co-produce the film: Spielberg and Jackson agreed[40] [41] and negotiated with Sony's Columbia Pictures to co-finance and distribute the first film internationally by the end of October.[42] [43] [44] Sony only agreed to finance two films, though Jackson said a third film may still happen.

Filming and visual effects

Principal photography began in Los Angeles on 26 January 2009; the release date was pushed from 2010 to 2011. Spielberg finished his film—after 32 days of shooting—in March 2009. Jackson was present for the first week of filming and supervised the rest of the shoot via a bespoke videoconferencing program. Simon Pegg said Jackson's voice would "be coming over the Tannoy like God".[45] During filming, various directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Daldry and David Fincher visited. Spielberg wanted to treat the film like live-action, moving his camera around. He revealed: "Every movie I made, up until Tintin, I always kept one eye closed when I've been framing a shot", because he wanted to see the movie in 2-D, the way viewers would. "On Tintin, I have both of my eyes open".[46] Jackson took the hands-on approach to directing Weta Digital during post-production, which Spielberg supervised through video conferencing.[47] Spielberg said "there will be no cell phones, no TV sets, no modern cars. Just timeless Europe".[48] His frequent collaborator and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński served as lighting consultant for Weta, and Jackson said the film would look "film noirish, very atmospheric". Spielberg finished six weeks of additional motion-capture filming in mid-July 2009.[49] Post production was finished in September 2011.[50] From the very beginning to the very end, the film took a total of seven years in production.

To improve the quality of the indoor lighting nuances, Weta Digital and NVIDIA developed a piece of ray tracing software called PantaRay, which requires 100 to 1,000 times more computation than traditional shadow-map based solutions.[51] For the performance of "Snowy", various models served as a reference for actors on-set, manipulated by property master Brad Elliott. According to animators, Snowy was the hardest character to animate and develop, due to the type of coat he has as well as being white. Later, a dog's motion was captured digitally so the animators had inspiration for realistic movements. His vocal effects were taken from various breeds of dogs.[52]

Music

John Williams composed the musical score for The Adventures of Tintin. It was the first time Williams had composed the score of a film since 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,[53] as well as his first score for an animated film. Most of the score was written while the animation was still in the early stages, with Williams seeking to employ "the old Disney technique of doing music first and have the animators trying to follow what the music is doing". Eventually, several cues had to be revised during the editing of the film. The composer decided to employ various musical styles, with "1920s, 1930s European jazz" for the opening credits and "pirate music" for the battle at sea.[54] The score was released on 21 October 2011 by Sony Classical Records.[55]

Differences from the source material

The film mainly draws its story from The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941) and to a much lesser degree, from Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). There are major differences from the source material, most notably with regard to the antagonists. In the book, Ivan Sakharine is a minor character, neither a villain nor the descendant of Red Rackham. As Sakharine was made the main antagonist in the film, the book's main villains, the Bird brothers, are absent from the adaptation, save for a small "cameo" in the initial sequence at the market. As a result of this change, many events transpire that bear no relation to events in the books involving Sakharine's character.[56] As in other adaptations, Snowy's "voice" is not used.

Release

The film's first press-screening was held in Belgium on 10 October 2011.[57] The world première was held in Brussels, Belgium on 22 October 2011—attended by Princess Astrid and her younger daughters, Princess Luisa Maria and Princess Laetitia Maria, with the Paris première later the same day.[58] Sony later released the film during late October and early November 2011 in Europe, Latin America and India. The film was released in Quebec on 9 December.[59] Paramount distributed the film in Asia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and all other English-speaking territories. They released the film in the United States on 21 December.[60] [61]

Home media

On 13 March 2012, Paramount Home Entertainment released The Adventures of Tintin on DVD and Blu-ray.[62] Both formats of the film were also released in a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack and a Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack, with each pack including 11 behind-the-scenes featurettes.[63]

During its first week available on home video, The Adventures of Tintin Blu-ray was the number-one-selling HD movie after selling 504,000 units and generating $11.09 million in sales.[64] The film was also the second-highest-selling home media seller during its first week, with 50% of its profits coming from its Blu-ray market.[65]

Reception

Critical response

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[66]

Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film four stars out of four and said that Spielberg's first venture into animation was his most delightful dose of pure entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark.[67] Amy Biancolli of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Such are the timeless joys of the books (and now the movie), this sparkling absurdity and knack for buckling swash under the worst of circumstances. The boy may have the world's strangest cowlick, but he sure can roll with the punches".[68] Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, calling it "an ambitious and lively caper, miles smarter than your average 3-D family film". He praised the setting of the film, stating its similarity to the original Tintin comic strips and was also pleased with the 3-D technology used in the film, saying that "Spielberg employed it as an enhancement to 2-D instead of an attention-grabbing gimmick".[69] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film three and a half stars out of four and wrote: "The movie comes at you in a whoosh, like a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. Presented as the first part of a trilogy produced by Spielberg and Peter Jackson, The Adventures of Tintin hits home for the kid in all of us who wants to bust out and run free".[70] Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times said: "Think of The Adventures of Tintin as a song of innocence and experience, able to combine a sweet sense of childlike wonder and pureness of heart with the most worldly and sophisticated of modern technology. More than anything, it's just a whole lot of fun".[71]

Richard Corliss of Time wrote: "Motion capture, which transforms actors into cartoon characters in a vividly animated landscape, is the technique Spielberg has been waiting for—the Christmas gift … that he's dreamed of since his movie childhood".[72] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter was also very positive about the film, describing it as "a good ol' fashioned adventure flick that hearkens back to the filmmaker's action-packed, tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers of the 1980s. Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a visually dazzling adaptation". Comparing it with another film, Mintzer said Tintin has "an altogether more successful mocap experience than earlier efforts like The Polar Express".[73]

Belgian newspaper Le Soirs film critics Daniel Couvreur and Nicolas Crousse called the film "a great popular adventure movie", stating "[the film's] enthusiasm and childhood spirit are unreservedly infectious".[74] Le Figaro praised the film, considering it to be "crammed with action, humor and suspense".[75] Leslie Felperin of Variety wrote: "Clearly rejuvenated by his collaboration with producer Peter Jackson, and blessed with a smart script and the best craftsmanship money can buy, Spielberg has fashioned a whiz-bang thrill ride that's largely faithful to the wholesome spirit of his source but still appealing to younger, Tintin-challenged auds".[76]

La Libre Belgique was, however, a little less enthusiastic; its film critic Alain Lorfèvre called the film "a technical success, [with] a Tintin vivid as it should be [and] a somewhat excessive Haddock". The Guardians Xan Brooks gave the film two stars out of five, stating: "While the big set pieces are often exuberantly handled, the human details are sorely wanting. How curious that Hergé achieved more expression with his use of ink-spot eyes and humble line drawings than a bank of computers and an army of animators were able to achieve".[77] Blog Critics writer Ross Miller said: "Author Hergé's wonderfully bold and diverse array of characters are a mixed bag when it comes to how they've been translated to the big-screen" and that while the mystery might be "perfectly serviceable for film ... the execution of it at times feels languid and stodgy, like it's stumbling along from one eye-catching setpiece to the next". However, he summed it up as "an enjoyable watch with some spectacular set-pieces, lavish visuals and some fine motion-capture performances".[78]

Tom McCarthy, the author of a study of the Tintin books, described Hollywood's treatment in this film of its characters and stories as "truly execrable", stating that it ignores the books' key idea of inauthenticity. The themes of fakeness and phoniness and counterfeit that drive many of the original plots are replaced in the film with messages that feel "as though we have wandered into a seminar on monetisation through self-empowerment … It's like making a biopic of Nietzsche that depicts him as a born-again Christian, or of Gandhi as a trigger-happy Rambo blasting his way through the Raj".[79]

Steve Rose from The Guardian wrote about one of the film's major criticisms: that The Adventures of Tintin, much like The Polar Express, crossed into the uncanny valley, thereby rendering Tintin "too human and not human at all".[80] Manohla Dargis, one of the chief critics of The New York Times, called the movie "a marvel of gee-wizardry and a night's entertainment that can feel like a lifetime". The simplicity of the comic strip, she wrote, is a crucial part of the success of Tintin, who is "an avatar for armchair adventurers". Dargis noted that Tintin's appearance in the film "resembled Hergé's creation, yet was eerily different as if, like Pinocchio, his transformation into human form had been prematurely interrupted". Another major fault in the film, Dargis opines, is how it is overworked; she writes that there is "hardly a moment of downtime, a chance to catch your breath or contemplate the tension between the animated Expressionism and the photo-realist flourishes". Nevertheless, she singles out some of the "interludes of cinematic delight", approving of the visual imagination employed within the movie's numerous exciting scenes.[81]

The film was named in New York magazine's David Edelstein's Top 10 List for 2011.[82] It was also included in HitFix's top 10 films of 2011.[83]

Box office

The Adventures of Tintin grossed $77,591,831 in North America and $296,402,120 in other territories for a worldwide total of $373,993,951.[84]

In the United States, it is one of only 12 feature films to be released in over 3,000 theaters and still improve on its box office performance in its second weekend, increasing 17.6% from $9,720,993 to $11,436,160.[85] On its first day, the film opened in the UK, France and Belgium, earning $8.6 million. In Belgium, Tintin's country of origin, the film made $520,000, while France provided $4.6 million, a number higher than other similar Wednesday debuts.[86] In France, it was the second-best debut of the year for its first day after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.[87] On its first weekend it topped the overseas box office with $56.2 million from 21 countries.[88] In Belgium, it earned $1.99 million. It also earned the top spot in many major markets like France and the Maghreb region ($21 million), where it set a record opening weekend for an animated title; the UK, Ireland and Malta ($10.9 million), Germany ($4.71 million) and Spain ($3.75 million).[89] [90] [91] It retained first place for a second consecutive and final weekend, earning $39.0 million from 45 territories.[92] In its native Belgium it was up 20% to $2.39 million, while in France it plummeted 61% to $8.42 million. Its biggest debut was in Russia and the CIS ($4.81 million).[93] [94]

The film grossed on its opening weekend (11–13 November 2011) in India, an all-time record for a Spielberg film and for an animated feature in India. The film was released with 351 prints, the largest-ever release for an animated film.[95] [96] [97] In four weeks, it became the highest-grossing animated film of all time in the country with .[98]

Accolades

The Adventures of Tintin was nominated for Best Original Score at the 84th Academy Awards.[99] It was the first all-digital motion-captured animated film (as well as the first non-Pixar film) to win a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. It also received two nominations at the 65th British Academy Film Awards in the categories of Best Animated Film and Best Special Visual Effects.

List of awards and nominations
Award Category Recipients and nominees Result
Academy AwardsBest Original ScoreJohn Williams
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[100] Best Animated Film
Annie Award[101] Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Effects in an Animated ProductionKevin Romond
Best Music in a FeatureJohn Williams
Best Writing in a Feature ProductionSteven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish
Art Directors Guild[102] Fantasy Film
BAFTA Awards[103] Best Animated FilmSteven Spielberg
Best Special EffectsJoe Letteri, Keith Miller, Wayne Stables and Jamie Beard
BMI Film & TV Awards[104] Film Music AwardJohn Williams
Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Animated Film
Critics' Choice Movie Awards[105] Best Animated Feature
Dallas-Fort Worth Film CriticsBest Animated Film
Empire Awards[106] The Art of 3D
Florida Film Critics Circle[107] Best Animated Film
Golden Globe Awards[108] Best Animated Feature FilmSteven Spielberg
Golden Trailer Awards[109] Best Animation/Family
Best Pre-show Theatrical Advertising
Grammy Awards[110] Best Score Soundtrack For Visual MediaJohn Williams
Houston Film Critics Society[111] Best Animated Film
Best Original ScoreJohn Williams
IGN Best of 2011[112] Best Animated Movie[113]
Best Movie ActorAndy Serkis[114]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association[115] Best Animation
New York Film Critics OnlineBest Animated Film
Online Film Critics Society[116] Best Animated Feature
Producers Guild of America Award[117] Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion PicturePeter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg
Satellite Awards[118] Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Best Adapted ScreenplaySteven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish
Saturn AwardsBest Animated Film
Best DirectorSteven Spielberg
Best MusicJohn Williams
Best Production DesignKim Sinclair
Best EditingMichael Kahn
Best Special EffectsScott E. Anderson, Matt Aitken, Joe Letteri, Matthias Menz and Keith Miller
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association AwardsBest Animated Film
Toronto Film Critics AssociationBest Animated Film
Visual Effects Society[119] [120] Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Motion PictureJamie Beard, Joe Letteri, Meredith Meyer-Nichols, Eileen Moran
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion PictureTintin—Gino Acevedo, Gustav Ahren, Jamie Beard, Simon Clutterbuck
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion PictureBagghar—Hamish Beachman, Adam King, Wayne Stables, Mark Tait
Docks—Matt Aitken, Jeff Capogreco, Jason Lazaroff, Alessandro Mozzato
Pirate Battle—Phil Barrenger, Keith F. Miller, Alessandro Saponi, Christoph Sprenger
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in an Animated Feature Motion PictureMatt Aitken, Matthias Menz, Keith F. Miller, Wayne Stables
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[121] Best Animated Feature
Women Film Critics Circle[122] Best Family Film
World Soundtrack Academy[123] Best Original Soundtrack of the YearJohn Williams
Soundtrack Composer of the Year

Video game

See main article: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (video game). A video game entitled The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, developed by game developer Ubisoft,[124] was released to coincide with the release date of the film. Gameloft released a game for mobile devices to coincide with the film's European launch.[125]

Proposed sequels

Originally, the second Tintin film was to be based on Hergé's The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.[126] However, screenwriter Anthony Horowitz later stated that those books would be the second sequel and another story would become the first sequel.

Peter Jackson announced that he would direct the sequel once he had finished The Hobbit trilogy. Two years before The Secret of the Unicorn, Jackson mentioned that his favorite Tintin stories were The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, The Black Island, and The Calculus Affair, but he had not yet decided which stories would form the basis of the second film. He added "it would be great" to use Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon for a third or fourth film in the series.

By the time The Secret of the Unicorn was released, Spielberg said the book that would form the sequel had been chosen and that the Thomson and Thompson detectives would "have a much bigger role".[127] The sequel would be produced by Spielberg and directed by Jackson. Kathleen Kennedy said the script might be completed by February or March 2012 and motion-captured in summer 2012, so that the film would be on track to be released by Christmas 2014 or mid-2015.[128]

In the months following the release of The Secret of the Unicorn, Spielberg revealed that a story outline for the sequel had been completed and that it was based on two books.[129] Horowitz tweeted that Professor Calculus would be introduced in the sequel.[130] [131] During a press tour in Belgium for , Jackson said he intended to shoot performance-capture in 2013, aiming for a release date in 2015.[132]

In March 2013, Spielberg said: "Don't hold me to it, but we're hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we're making, we can't share that now but we're combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Hergé". He refused to confirm the names of the books, but said The Blue Lotus would probably be the third Tintin film.[133] In December 2014, when Jackson was asked if the Tintin sequel would be his next project after The Hobbit trilogy, he said that it would be made "at some point soon", but he added that he wanted to direct two New Zealand films before that.[134]

In June 2015, Jamie Bell stated that the sequel was titled Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and that he hoped shooting would begin in early 2016 for a possible release by the end of 2017 or early 2018.[135] Later in November, Horowitz said that he was no longer working on the sequel, and did not know if it was still being made,[136] and in March 2016, he confirmed that the script he had written for the sequel had been scrapped.[137]

In March 2016, Scout.co.nz announced that Jackson would produce the sequel rather than direct. The website also announced that a third Tintin film was in development, with Jackson serving as executive producer. Bell and Serkis were reported to be reprising their roles in both films.[138] Spielberg later announced that Jackson was still attached to directing the sequel, and that it would enter work once Jackson completed another Amblin Partners/DreamWorks production.[139]

In March 2018, Spielberg reiterated the above, saying that "Peter Jackson has to do the second part. Normally, if all goes well, he will soon start working on the script. As it takes two years of animation work on the film, for you, I would not expect to see it for about three years. But Peter will stick to it. Tintin is not dead!"[4] [5] In interviews later the same year, Jackson affirmed his intent to make another Tintin film, but said that a script was yet to be written.[140]

In an April 2022 interview with Forbes, Jamie Bell expressed interest in reprising his role saying. "He [Peter Jackson]’s always doing something, so if they said let’s get the band back together, we’d go do it. It’s going to be weird if I play Tintin at 45, but still, the technology allows it, so that’s fine."[141] In April 2024, Andy Serkis stated that Jackson was working on the sequel.[142] [143]

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Notes and References

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  2. Web site: The Adventures of Tintin – The Secret of the Unicorn (PG). Steven Spielberg. BBFC. 13 October 2011. 15 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120215191416/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/BFF279229/. live.
  3. News: Films up in the air after studios split. Variety. 9 October 2008. Anne. Thompson. 18 June 2011. 26 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026020758/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993747?refCatId=2508. dead.
  4. Web site: Steven Spielberg : "Peter Jackson va bientôt travailler sur la suite des Aventures de Tintin". 23 March 2018. Premiere.fr. 17 August 2020. 4 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200804115918/https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/Steven-Spielberg-Peter-Jackson-va-bientot-travailler-sur-la-suite-des-Aventures-de-Tintin. live.
  5. Web site: Tintin: Steven Spielberg says it's up to Sir Peter Jackson to revive the franchise. Stuff. 24 March 2018 . 9 February 2019. 11 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180811232309/https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/102560728/tintin-steven-spielberg-says-its-up-to-sir-peter-jackson-to-revive-the-franchise. live.
  6. Web site: Tintin 2: Horowitz says story 'still under discussion' . BBC . 2 November 2011 . 24 June 2019 . Tim . Masters . 14 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182649/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15553417 . live .
  7. News: Tintin Has World Premiere In His Hometown. 4 March 2023. TODAY.com. 22 October 2011. Associated Press. 4 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304073518/https://www.today.com/news/tintin-has-world-premiere-his-hometown-wbna44997749. live.
  8. Web site: The Adventures of Tintin Official Movie Site. Paramount Pictures. https://web.archive.org/web/20111013183713/http://www.us.movie.tintin.com/. 13 October 2011. dmy.
  9. Web site: 2012 GOLDEN GLOBES Nominees and Winners – Complete List!. January 15, 2012. Broadway World. 15 April 2012. 5 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120505141317/http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-GOLDEN-GLOBES-Are-Tonight-BroadwayWorld-to-Update-Winners-LIVE-20120115. dead.
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  11. News: January 26, 2009 . Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment Announce the January 26 Start of Principal Photography on the 3D Motion Capture Feature 'The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn' Directed by Steven Spielberg and Starring Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig . . dead . 26 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090201055406/http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F01-26-2009%2F0004960578&EDATE= . 1 February 2009 . dmy-all.
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  13. News: 2007 . The Cottage – Andy Serkis interview . indieLondon . dead . 4 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081005001422/http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/the-cottage-andy-serkis-interview . 5 October 2008.
  14. "The Who's Who of Tintin", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  15. News: Armstrong . Stephen . 21 September 2008 . Simon Pegg: He's Mr Popular . The Sunday Times . UK . dead . 21 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110616214636/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4774264.ece . 16 June 2011.
  16. News: Cavendish . Dominic . 9 January 2009 . Toby Jones takes the lead in Tom Stoppard's classic Every Good Boy Deserves Favour . The Daily Telegraph . UK . dead . 9 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111115205312/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/dominiccavendish/4208197/Toby-Jones-takes-the-lead-in-Tom-Stoppards-classic-Every-Good-Boy-Deserves-Favour.html . 15 November 2011.
  17. News: Johnston . Barry . 18 April 2009 . Scots star Tony Curran on his dream role in Spielberg's new Tintin movie . . dead . 23 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923105643/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/scots-star-tony-curran-on-his-dream-1019058 . 23 September 2012.
  18. Web site: Cary Elwes Exclusive Interview: The SAW 3D Star on Bookending the Franchise, TINTIN & YELLOW SUBMARINE. Collider. Messer. Ron. 31 October 2010. 24 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20131113050309/https://collider.com/cary-elwes-interview-saw-3d-tin-tin-yellow-submarine-the-princess-bride/. 13 November 2013. live.
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  20. News: Nepales . Ruben V. . 18 May 2008 . Spielberg may co-direct next with Peter Jackson . . dead . 18 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518115708/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20080518-137261/Spielberg-may-co-direct-next-with-Peter-Jackson . 18 May 2008 . dmy.
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  26. News: Head . Steve . 17 December 2002 . An Interview with Steven Spielberg . . live . 30 June 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104011515/http://www.ign.com/articles/2002/12/17/an-interview-with-steven-spielberg . 4 November 2012.
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  29. News: Abramowitz . Rachel . 22 March 2009 . 'Tintin' project brings moguls together . Los Angeles Times . live . 23 March 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090327184937/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-tintinfilm22-2009mar22,0,603817.story?track=rss . 27 March 2009.
  30. News: Waxman . Sharon . Sharon Waxman . 22 May 2007 . Top Directors See the Future, and They Say It's in 3-D . The New York Times . live . 4 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130603172758/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/movies/22dime.html?_r=1&ei=5070&en=d97d3fc56f20c686&ex=1183780800&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all . 3 June 2013.
  31. News: 14 September 2010 . Holy Smoke!!! Quint visits with Steven Spielberg on the INDIANA JONES 4 set!!! Plus news on TINTIN & TRANSFORMERS 2!!! . . live . 8 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080512081421/http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34376 . 12 May 2008.
  32. "Tintin: Conceptual Design", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  33. News: McClintock . Pamela . Thompson . Anne . 14 May 2007 . Spielberg, Jackson team for Tintin . . dead . 24 May 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215311/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&query=tintin . 26 September 2007.
  34. "The World of Tintin", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  35. News: Mayberry . Carly . 2 October 2007 . Scribe Moffat on 'Tintin' case . . 2 October 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071018011523/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia426500233e132c7ae7d566d04f0282e . 18 October 2007.
  36. News: Harlow . John . 8 June 2008 . Police deployed against paparazzi . The Times . UK . dead . 12 June 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080904215021/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4072239.ece . 4 September 2008.
  37. News: Dr Who writer denies Tintin row. BBC News Online. 21 July 2008. 3 September 2008. 24 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080724015941/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7517423.stm. live.
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  39. News: September 20, 2008 . Universal deems Tintin movie too expensive: report . The Economic Times . live . 13 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200908062758/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/universal-deems-tintin-movie-too-expensive-report/articleshow/3505638.cms?from=mdr . 8 September 2020.
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  41. News: Eller . Claudia . 19 September 2008 . Amazing story: a 'no' to Spielberg . Los Angeles Times . live . 19 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080919103853/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tintin19-2008sep19,0,5882061.story . 19 September 2008.
  42. News: Cieply. Michael. Rivals in Talks to Finance 'Tintin' Films. The New York Times. 1 November 2008. 1 November 2008. 3 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130603153052/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/business/media/01tintin.html?em. live.
  43. News: Thompson. Anne. Sony/Paramount financing 'Tintin'. Variety. 31 October 2008. 1 November 2008. Anne Thompson (film critic). 20 June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110620165625/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995106. live.
  44. News: Eller . Claudia . 31 October 2008 . Paramount and Sony might co-parent "Tintin" . . live . 1 November 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081106110258/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/10/paramount-and-s.html . 6 November 2008.
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  50. "Toasting Tintin", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  51. Web site: 'Tintin' Draws On GPU Technology. 21 February 2012. Computer Graphics World. 16 October 2014. 20 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020071259/http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2012/Tintin-Draws-On-GPU-Technology.aspx. live.
  52. "Snowy: From Beginning to End", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  53. Web site: Sony Classical to Release John Williams' 'The Adventures of Tintin' Soundtrack. Film Music Reporter. 30 January 2012. 8 August 2011. 3 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120103034006/http://filmmusicreporter.com/2011/08/08/sony-classical-to-release-john-williams-the-adventures-of-tintin-soundtrack/. live.
  54. "Tintin: The Score", The Adventures of Tintin DVD
  55. Web site: The Adventures Of Tintin: John Williams. Amazon.fr. 30 January 2012. 21 October 2011. 6 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120106135043/http://www.amazon.fr/The-Adventures-Of-Tintin/dp/B005VTVLOO. live.
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  58. News: Tintin fans flock to Belgian film premiere. Daily Telegraph. 31 October 2011. 22 October 2011. London. 27 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111027062708/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8844394/Tintin-fans-flock-to-Belgian-film-premiere.html. dead.
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  66. Web site: Subers . Ray . 24 December 2011 . Friday Report: 'M:I-4,' 'Sherlock' Hold Off 'Dragon,' 'Tintin,' 'Zoo' . . Paramount Pictures is reporting that the movie earned an "A-" CinemaScore, and that the audience was 61 percent male and 65 percent over the age of 25. . 11 March 2022 . 11 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220311044555/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed3850175492/ . live .
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