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- Release date: 2010
- Directors: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson
- Screenplays: Stephen Moffat
- Original story by Herge
- Budget: $100 million
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Directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to adapt Herge's poplar comic series The Adventures of Tintin into a series of films. The series will include three films made back-to-back and will utilize a 3-D motion capture technique developed by Weta Digital, a special effects company.Variety: Spielberg, Jackson team for Tintin (May 14, 2007) It was confirmed at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, that Spielberg would direct the first film, Jackson the second and both would co-direct the third.The Dominion Post: Steven Spielberg reveals more Tintin plans(May 20, 2008)
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin follow the Tintin, a young Belgian reporter and traveler, and his faithful dog Snowy on their adventures around the world. In every adventure Tintin, while busy investigating a story, finds himself involved in dangerous cases which force him to take heroic action to save the day.Main Characters
- Tintin: A young Belgian reporter and traveler. The series protagonist.
- Snowy: A white Fox Terrier and Tintin's faithful, four-legged companion.
- Captain Haddock: Tintin's best friend, a seafaring captain of disputed ancestry
- Thomson and Thompson: Two comical detectives who look alike and only told apart by their different mustaches



