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Spielberg Taking Another Shot At TINTIN For The Big Screen'!

Hell yeah! by Monkey Lover	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:23:50 AM
Tintin is the fucking man, and Spielberg is the fucking man, too. These two are ace. But now then, I see that the article says Steve-O will produce, but makes no mention of him directing. Will he direct this enticing flick, or will he get some other talented man to do it? I have to say, if the Greatest Director Of All Time (That's Spielberg, by the way, so fuck you Kubrick zealots) chooses not to direct this, M. Jeunet is surely the next best choice. For a start, he is Un European and as Amelie showed, he has a jaunty and distinctive style parfait for this movie. Bosch! Hooray for Spielberg, truly the greatest man alive!
Tintin is belgian! by Ashen Shugar	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:25:11 AM
Not French! Nuff said'
Aye, Tintin is Belgian... by Monkey Lover	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:30:26 AM
Now then, who should play Tintin in a live-action version? It must be a talented comic performer of youthful age. I suggest COLIN HANKS! Yes, you know he is good for the role. Dye his hair, give him a quiff and he even looks like him. Plus, he is no doubt a Spielberg family friend, what with Hanks Sr. and Band of Brothers connections. Whoop-dee-doop!
Hmmm by Heleno	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:31:49 AM
Love Spielberg, like Tintin, but I can't quite imagine Tintin working. They're good stories, but I am having nightmare visions of Scooby Doo as I write. Because Tintin is, after all, of a rather different era and there's a danger that he will look really dated in real life. And if they keep the 1930s setting, won't there be inevitable comparisons to one Dr Jones? And Tintin is once and forever Belgian. Although Captain Haddock might be French, as the model for Moulinsart is in the Loire Valley. If you go to Brussels, there's a cartoon museum with life sized models of the whole crew on their way to the moon.
I'm with Monkey Lover by Heleno	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:34:36 AM
Colin Hanks looks perfect for Tintin, and could bring a sense of humour to the role. And I'm seeing him on stage this saturday, so I shall hang out at the back door of the theatre and ask him if he's up for it.
You go, Heleno... by Monkey Lover	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:41:11 AM
Together we shall provide this man with a job, and provide a franchise with a leading man! I hope the suits are reading this!
More proof that Spielberg rules... by Monkey Lover	Nov 22nd, 2002 07:46:53 AM
Go to oscarwatch.com for a rave review of Catch Me If You Can. Sounds like something great is on the horizon...
clive owen, nah..too old.. by ABAR	Nov 22nd, 2002 09:33:26 AM
dicaprio as tintin?..no fuckin way.__frodo as tintin..hmm..nop__i know i know! let's cast a real belgian like BENOIT POELVOORDE! (man bites dog)
Fuck Tintin, give me Indy 4! by Atticus Finch	Nov 22nd, 2002 09:37:27 AM

This is great news by LivingTribunal	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:18:25 AM
Shut up Finch. Fuck Indy 4. Indy sucks.
Alain Resnais by FentonCrisp	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:20:46 AM
I heard that Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, etc.) was supposed to direct a Tintin movie back in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Does anybody know whether that's true? That would have been interesting to say the least. He's still alive. Maybe Spielberg could get him.
mcauley culkin by chestercopperpot	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:25:58 AM
or the kid from jerry mguire ...... DO IT !!!!
Pussies drink last by House_of_Slurf	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:26:45 AM
Oops. Thought this TB was about a black guy with knives...
Not my original idea... by Ernst Blofeld	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:27:39 AM
But Jude Law would make a great Tintin.
I've said it before and i'll say it again, A.I. is a truly great by togmeister	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:53:51 AM
"They made us too smart, too fast and too many. We are suffering for the mistakes they made, because when the end comes, all that will be left is us." "Give a path, she-elf!!!!". Take your pick.
I was speaking Franglish... by Monkey Lover	Nov 22nd, 2002 11:15:23 AM
Un European. As in, A European. Perhaps I should have said Une European to make it clearer for you. Hmm... Yes. After my initial Colin Hanks recommendation, I have to agree that Jude Law is a damn awesome choice as well. Those are the frontrunners at this stage in my view.
Oh god... by stitch	Nov 22nd, 2002 11:19:29 AM
Another childhood favorite comic book character down the drain. As long as he doesn't buy the Yoko Tsuno comic books...
Maybe SS can cast Barbara Walters as Castafiore by Silvio Dante	Nov 22nd, 2002 11:57:10 AM
nuff said
Fuck Indy 4, Give Me TinTin! by seven hooks	Nov 22nd, 2002 12:01:22 PM
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Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles in Ten Thousand Thundering by Pallando Blue	Nov 22nd, 2002 12:13:12 PM
Man oh man, there's SO MANY ways it could go wrong, and so many ways it could go The Rightest Ever. C'mon Stevie, do Herge justice... For one thing, please do NOT undermine the comedic value of Haddock's rampant belligerent alcoholism for the sake of modern PC sensibilities. WC Fields was funny, Foster Brooks was funny, let the Captain be funny. Iconoclast! Visigoth! [gonna have to pull up a good one (like Red Sea Sharks...) and copy down all his name-calling--my god, Haddock was BORN for AICN Talkback...]
They've already made a couple of live-action Tintin films by damorend	Nov 22nd, 2002 12:37:24 PM
If you know your Tintin (or your Imdb), you know a couple of french live-action films were made in the 60's. The guy who played Tintin didn't act in any other movie. I didn't see these movies, but read some picture books based on them when i was little and they sucked.
Jeunet by bing-o	Nov 22nd, 2002 12:56:20 PM
Jeunet is decidedly European. Have you seen Alien 4? He took a consummate american series (cf. Fincher's alien 3) and stylized it european-style.
TIN TIN IS BELGIAN!!! by Movie freak	Nov 22nd, 2002 01:22:28 PM
Sorry, just wanted to get that of my chest! Tintin ain't French. The motherfucker's Belgian. Give my country the few credits it deserves!!!
TINTIN IS BELGIAN TERRITORY by 62836283	Nov 22nd, 2002 01:33:16 PM
No offence, but you ought to know this: Tintin and his creator, Herg
Love Tintin, love Spielberg by Wee Willie	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:15:22 PM
But I don't have high hopes for this. BTW I was at the Amsterdam airport when i was a kid and saw a Tintin book I'd never read. So I bought it and was reading it on the plane home. It was a sex parody of Tintin. (Only in The Netherlands could a kid buy a book like that). Tintin was having sex with everyone! It totally warped my perception of the Tintin books. The funniest picture I've ever seen is the one of Ole Captain Haddock giving lil Tintin a jolly rodgering while Snowy looks on.
"I'm from Belgium. Isn't that weird?" by Flansy	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:36:58 PM
Finally, something worthwhile that could be adapted WELL. (John Rhys-Davies as Haddock!!) The CrystalBalls/Prisoners story is totally the way to go... ... but have any of you read the banned-in-the-US "Tintin in Africa"? Chock full of offensive racist-humor and a scene in which Tintin "hunts" a rhino by drilling a hole into it while it sleeps and filling it with dynamite. Bizarre... could've been another of the aforementioned foreign-bootlegs, though.
Make TINTIN AU CONGO! by NeofromtheMatrix	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:37:22 PM
I'm french-Canadian, so I have to read Tintin; in the Province of Quebec, its the law. But I always found that the Tintin books were full of racist trash. If you don't believe me, read "Tintin au Congo", and look at how Herg
Tintin by Spielberg will be awsome! by kdashf	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:44:27 PM
If you know your Indy pictures you will know that several mentions on Tintin and Sherlock Holmes are made throughout the movies. With the long history of adventures Tintin has experienced that have been published now in the hands of Spielberg we will have an epic. Tintin has gone from Moscow to Africa all the while being stalked at every corner, shot at kidnapped tortured and posioned. I think Spielberg will have what it taked to surpass the Young Indiana Jones Adventures.
ComicStoreGuy by WeedyMcSmokey	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:54:17 PM
I don't know about you, but to me, Tintin is the gayest, gay that ever gayed the gay-gay. Gay.
Best of luck by Ardee-El	Nov 22nd, 2002 02:57:11 PM

Let's try this again by Ardee-El	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:02:15 PM
Best of luck to Speilberg & Co., but when are they going to release the library of already-existing animated Tintins on DVD in English? Ask 'em at store.tintin.com.
Should be Great... by KONG33	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:20:03 PM
if it's nothing like Minority Report or A.I. (which I mostly enjoyed).
Shocking! A product of the 30s being racially distasteful! by Pallando Blue	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:20:39 PM
Not much of a defense of course, that old "just a reflection of his times and society," but Congo WAS one of his first, Herge was pretty young, and hadn't really found his voice yet. His Africans were pretty much carbon copies of all the "humorous" African cartoon stereotypes all over America/Europe back then. Ugly, icky even, but true. (Also, don't forget, in "The Broken Ear" Tintin even disguises himself--successfully!--in blackface! Give THAT a shot, Spielberg!) Thankfully, though, he did grow, and mature, and mostly slough off the prevalent prejudices of early 20th century (like so many of that era learned to), and the difference in his treatment of foreign cultures over the decades is significant. In particular, toward the end of his life Herge stated that "Tintin in Tibet" was his favorite Tintin book, by far. I'd say "Congo" is more of an unfortunate early footnote, than representative of the work the world came to love. As for Tintin dynamiting a rhino, hell, Herge was just doing Itchy & Scratchy more than 50 years before Groening! :) *** Now, if Spielberg's going to adapt one of the books instead of attempting an original storyline, "Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure" probably has the best combo of scope and character introductions. (So many of the later ones are burdened by a truckload of returning characters.) Not a lot of gunfire or life-endangerment, though... but I'd LOVE to see Spielberg do the pirate flashback (his chance to atone for "Hook"). And it's VERY cool to ponder what Polanski would have done with Ottakar's Scepter.
That's a shame, McSmokey by Trav McGee	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:33:01 PM
I'd figured you to be one of the few intelligent ones around here. My bad. ...Can pretty much eliminate Red Sea Sharks, seeing as how Spielberg already "homaged" it with the mountain-carved palace shot in Last Crusade. Wonder if he'll attempt an original story. Either way, please, somebody page Kasdan. A Favorite Movie Moment: Dustin Hoffman reading Haddock dialogue to his son in bed, in Kramer vs. Kramer.
make it a 2-D animated flick, like the TV series by beamish13	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:33:25 PM
I too was entranced by the books as a young'un, and I think that if no stupid kiddies jokes are interjected, and it is not a live-action production, it could be great.
ComicStoreGuy and Trav by WeedyMcSmokey	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:39:19 PM
I didn't say Tintin being gay was bad - like blowing up rhinos with dynamite in a CHILDRENS STORYBOOK, (actually that whole Congo story is pretty fucking racist) - but he's gay. I dunno, I thought it was a fact - and an interesting one at that. You attached the negativity to my post - that's your hang-up, not mine. Gay. Oh, their I go again. Gay. Can't seem to stop... Anyway, I was just having some fun - and Trav, I am smart! I'm ever so smart, evaluate me! Evaluate ME!!!!!
ComicStoreGuy by WeedyMcSmokey	Nov 22nd, 2002 03:59:57 PM
I'll have you know, sir, that my homosexual fantasies don't involve anyone but Ben Affleck - oh shit!, edit! edit! As for being retarded, well I won't point out the obvious hypocrisy of being offended by the word gay, but not the word retarded (the preferred nomenclature has changed to developmentaly disabled) but hey if you spin me around fast enough and give me a shove I sure do get a little funny in the melon! Duh, dopa-doo-doo, doopy-doo.....
ComicStoreGuy by WeedyMcSmokey	Nov 22nd, 2002 04:02:12 PM
Duh, can u tel me how magnets werk? I no no.
ComicStoreGuy by WeedyMcSmokey	Nov 22nd, 2002 04:25:02 PM
Touche! - have a good weekend.
oh i love tintin (tim und struppi)!!! by drjones	Nov 22nd, 2002 05:01:57 PM
steven meets tintin! oh yeah i liked that idea and i
Transcending racial bias by Wild At Heart	Nov 22nd, 2002 05:03:42 PM
I came to appreciate TINTIN ridiculously late in life because as a youngster the visual style appealed to me less than other material at the time ( I was more of an ASTERIX fan in my youth ). I decided to finally sit down and look at the stuff fairly recently purely out of an interest in analysing Herge's graphic style and was genuinely surprised at the sophistication of the whole package - for example, 'Flight 714' deals with material that would not be out of place in an old X-FILES episode. It is interesting to me, reading in 'The Complete Tintin' compendium, that the much-maligned 'Tintin in Africa' is still published and quite popular in Africa itself. What saddens me most about the moralist tut-tutting that pervades contemporary society on racially-senstitive issues is that in the stampede to deliver condemnation often some genuinely great things are lost. For example 'Tintin in Africa' deals with the very real phenomenon of the Leopard cult, something which I myself have come across in my own researches. Now the leopard cult is just something so scary, wicked and nasty that it begs to be thrown into some action-adventure potboiler. Shamanism, cannibalism, human sacrifice - it's all there folks. But you can bet your boots no one in this day and age will have the balls to touch it. As we all know LEAGUE OF EXTAORDINARY GENTLEMEN has been affected by, and will ultimately suffer from, similar weak-mindedness due to the excision of the Chinese criminal mastermind Fu Manchu from its plot, for fear of being branded stereotypical and racist. This is not merely disappointing to me, in truth I find this revisionist cultural manipulation discomforting and appallingly gutless. Fu Manchu is pulp personified, and LEAGUE is Alan Moore's quite wonderful spin on pulp fantasy and 19th century romantic fiction. Without him the whole concept just becomes meaningless. If there are problems of perception of admittedly antiquated representations of peoples of non-Anglo Saxon cultures search for ways to give them contemporary relevance and FIND A WAY TO GET BEYOND THEM, don't just blanket them because it's just too problematic. Anyway, not to get too heavy, but I feel that we are being deprived of many potentially great characters and scenarios, particulary in mainstream cinema, because of this trend.
yo by TELESCREEN	Nov 22nd, 2002 05:32:32 PM
i have no clue what this crap is, but i'm sure it will be both gay and retarded as usual... i'm going to go see the new bond now. here's hoping it won't suck ass
oooh i remember what this is now by TELESCREEN	Nov 22nd, 2002 05:39:41 PM
That little comic ...My dad's got a big fat paper back of a shit load of them from a long time ago. This should be pretty good. Original idea... Spielberg is too damn smart. I wonder if this Catch Me if you Can will be good.... I loved Minority Report even though Spielberg and Cruise are dyslexics. Man, dyslexia is so retarded and gay. Just like the President. Hey, maybe he's dyslexic too! I don't think AI was that great. AI was to ET what episode II was to episode V... Wasn't too bad but it never made me feel any emotion aside from slight interest. I wish Spielberg would stop being a mature director with his wide range and go back to making awesome scifi blockbuster shit for us adolescant geeks.
by tfresca	Nov 22nd, 2002 08:05:36 PM
There was an animated TinTin show on HBO a few years back, about the same time as they started showing Babar. I thought it was pretty good, although the animation was a bit primitive it did have a style. Anyone else remember it?
Spielberg directs, Lucas produces, Prinze Jr. as Tintin by Avril_Lavigne	Nov 22nd, 2002 08:58:11 PM
Freddie Prinze Jr. would be PERFECT as the coiffed Belgian fecal freak. ILM could make Milou (Snowy for you Americans) ALL CGI and walking on hind legs speaking with a frog accent! Wouldn't that be c00l! I also hope Captain Haddock will be played by Dame Judi Dench, who BTW looks JUST like him when she doesn't shave.... Pink sucks, I rule.
no, calculus. cuthbert calculus. by haiku tunnel	Nov 22nd, 2002 09:00:05 PM
tintin goes holly wood? blistering barnacles! hurry the fuck up!
sure. Tin-Tin was pretty good... by KingKarll	Nov 22nd, 2002 10:45:36 PM
World travelling, had a talking dog ala 'Orphan Annie', ummm those two derby wearing Thompson Twins after him all the time(Yes, that is where the name came from...), etc. Fine comic, it would make for an interesting flick if done right.
1: Tintin ISN'T Belgian, and 2: JUDE LAW SHOULD PLAY HIM!!! by Cash Bailey	Nov 22nd, 2002 11:18:23 PM
Herge was Belgian, but the character was purposely absent of any kind of ethnicity in order to allow easy translation to other countries. Firstly, his name means nothing. it's a nonsense name that indicates no culture or race. Secondly he has no surname and no parents, further indicating that herge clearly wanted him to have no real character at all, apart from being tough, quick-witted and fearless. I fucking love Tintin books, and only Jude Law should play him in a film. Either him or Orlando Bloom. I wouldn't give a damn if he was English.
And Billy Connoly as Captain Haddock!! by Cash Bailey	Nov 22nd, 2002 11:19:00 PM
Damn, I'm good.
by hiperaktiv	Nov 23rd, 2002 12:30:59 AM
As somebody already said, they already made some live action TinTin movies. I remember one quite memorable scene where Captian Haddock choofs on a bong. NS.
I have no idea what Tintin is... by tav	Nov 23rd, 2002 04:35:23 AM
I only read cool girly comics as a child... like elfquest.
Fuck Spielberg; give it to Jeunet. by Ronnie_Dobbs	Nov 23rd, 2002 06:10:38 AM

i by CuervoJones	Nov 23rd, 2002 10:43:26 AM
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ANIME NEWS!!!! Live Action Captain Harlock in the works as well. by Monkey_King	Nov 23rd, 2002 11:36:27 AM
Who would play Tochiro Oyama, or would they re-write the shit out of it and ruin it like Disney's proposed Star Blazers film?
Brian Blessed as Captain Haddock by gingeracrockford	Nov 23rd, 2002 11:42:16 AM
He IS Haddock. I also like the idea of Jude Law as Tintin. I'll think about the Thompsons and Calculus and get back to you.
ALL CG? THEY SHOULD MAKE A LIVE-ACTION TINTIN WITH JUDE LAW!!!! by jennababe	Nov 23rd, 2002 03:57:20 PM

Aw man. . .I thought they were talking about RIN TIN TIN....fuck by STRIDER355	Nov 23rd, 2002 04:07:25 PM
ya.
God, imagine the Polanski version! by Tezuka	Nov 24th, 2002 01:01:09 AM
Polanski specialises in films that make the audience uncomfortable. It's hard to picture a studio agreeing to the old master directing a kids flick...think of the publicity!
jude law is tintin by nadsat	Nov 24th, 2002 04:00:20 PM
jude law could be a good actor for tintin, but he is already too old! freddy prinze jr? lol there are two tintin movies, who was realised in the 70' here is a photos of tintin and haddock in this movie : http://www.tintin.qc.ca/dessin s/toison.jpg in france, we says "c'est des films de merde" because they are very bad
House_of_Slurf..... by ManosTHOF	Nov 24th, 2002 09:45:37 PM
Nah, he already got himself perished. :) Gentlemen, by all means, I think we ought to have an introspective moment of silence for poor old Tin Tin.
Tintin and Spielberg... by hawktown	Nov 25th, 2002 12:52:50 AM
Being a huge Tintin fan since I was a kid, and also a spielberg fan, this is one movie I can't wait to see. Jude Law could play one helluva Tintin...or maybe Ewan McGregor.
tintin overrated by berend	Nov 26th, 2002 06:19:53 AM
I was always surprised about the universal praise for Tintin (or Kuifje, as he is known here in the Netherlands). A very irritating character with a even more irritating dog. The stories were interesting, but I really, really hated the drawing style of the characters. Their emotionless, wooden features, I just didn't get it. Worse still, he inspired a whole generation of (especially fellow Belgian) artists to follow in his footsteps, resulting in an avalanche of similar poorly drawn characters (I won't even start about the ubiquitous 'sweatdrops' flying around all the time to show, what, emotion? stress? the overuse of this device is only matched in manga cartoons). The only one to use the 'clear line' style effectively is a Dutchman, Theo van den Boogaard. If the chronology would have allowed it he should be known as the founder of that style. But then again, the entire world exept me seems to love Herge's work, so I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.
Tintin IS Belgian, but British actors are ok by me. by Kielland	Dec 1st, 2002 07:45:39 AM
A little note to Cash Bailey, I think you would have a pretty thin case trying to proove that Tintin isn't Belgian. He speaks French, lives in Brussels and are called Belgian by people he meet along the way. It wasn't purely by chance that he went to Belgian Kongo, do you think? An English language film would be ok by me though and Brian Blessed and Orlando Bloom are good casting suggestions. If Spielberg is going to make this film I would prefer European actors to American. The one thing that could destroy this film is the casting of Leonardo DiCrappio.

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