Tintin

Four Images That Prove Tintin Could Be an Unforgettably Beautiful Movie

The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn is one of the most ambitious movie adaptations ever created — director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have gone to insane lengths to craft a CG, motion-capture recreation of Herge’s ambitious art vistas. Europeans are getting to see the results for themselves, starting this weekend…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 28

The New Tintin Movie Needs to Use This Sweet Animation Video

James Curran, an animator and fan of the Tintins, cleverly created a title sequence that incorporates all 24 Tintin books somehow. It’s fresh and engaging and cute and funny and reminds me of childhood. Can you make out the references? [Slim Jim Studios via The Awesomer]

Movies Casey Chan Oct 15

Eight new Tintin clips take Steven Spielberg’s adventure out of the Uncanny Valley

Up until now, it was always a bit difficult to avoid falling into the uncanny valley while watching trailers for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s giant Tintin movie. But we’re happy to report that this brand new collection of clips has whisked us all away into a REAL world and not a mo-cap nightmare. It’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 12

Action-packed Adventures of Tintin trailer hints how the movie’s different from the comics

The latest trailer for Adventures of Tintin is out — check out the bazooka mishaps, motorcycle accidents, and pirate weirdness that awaits the boy hero. Also, the trailer mentions a mysterious object that “could have changed the course of history.” The Tintin comics this film is based on — The Crab with the Golden Claws,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 5

The Brand New Tintin Trailer Looks Better Every Time I Watch It

Nope. No uncanny valley here—we see a few shots of actual, humanoid talking. No dead doll faces. Just pure bloody brilliant action. Did you see that motorcycle?! Well, Mr. Spielberg. I’m officially watching this. [MSN UK via /Film] &lt;a href=’http://video.uk.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&amp;vid=2c3838fe-e91e-4ac1-86b8-af598432aa92&amp;src=SLPl:embed::uuids’ target=’_new’ title=’MSN Exclusive: The Adventures of Tintin – trailer’&gt;Video: MSN Exclusive: The Adventures of Tintin…

Movies Kwame Opam Oct 5

10 Ways Steven Spielberg Has Made the World a Better Place

This has been a big year for Steven Spielberg — he’s launched two TV shows, including last night’s Terra Nova, and produced countless movies. The Spielberg tribute Super-8 was a surprise hit, and it’s become fashionable for other film-makers to claim they’re paying tribute to early Spielberg. Still ahead this year: the huge motion-capture reinvention…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 27

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

Remember Murray Groat’s Cthulhu versus Tintin book covers? Groat’s expanded this series and introduced the boy reporter to the Yithians, the Mi-Go, and Crawford Tillinghast. Something tells me this would have happened if Peter Jackson tapped Guillermo del Toro to help out on Secret of the Unicorn. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 And if these covers pique your interest,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

What if Tintin had his own Iron Man armor?

As one of io9’s Hergéophiles, I’ve been absolutely digging Dan Hipp’s apocryphal adventures of Tintin. Now he’s teamed up the boy reporter with a familiar playboy industrialist. Will Tony Stark put Captain Haddock on the path to sobriety? Tintin’s armor really should have a built-in tungsten cowlick, though. https://gizmodo.com/the-lost-adventures-of-tintin-take-us-to-tatooine-and-m-5798494 https://gizmodo.com/is-this-tintins-final-xenomorphic-adventure-5791602

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 23

Our first glimpse of Tintin was luminous

The first footage to come out of today’s Tintin panel was actually not from the movie itself, but the first test footage Spielberg requested from Peter Jackson’s special effects production company, Weta. Spielberg had asked Jackon’s workshop to show him an animated Snowy next to a live person. On the screen, against the backdrop of…

Movies Lauren Davis Jul 22

First Full Tintin Trailer: Maybe This Motion Capture Thing Isn’t So Bad

When the teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Tintin trailer came out, I had reservations. The post, the styling, the action, they all looked terrific. But why couldn’t we see anyone talking? As the new full-length trailer mercifully reveals, turns out they had nothing to hide. https://gizmodo.com/is-tintin-lost-in-the-uncanny-valley-5802690 As you can see above, Tintin and company—unlike so…

Movies Brian Barrett Jul 11

Why are Superman, Batman and the Avengers staying away from Comic-Con?

Now it’s official: Marvel Studios won’t be promoting The Avengers, or any other forthcoming movies, at Comic-Con. With this news, Marvel joins parent company Disney, plus Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co., in sitting out SDCC 2011. That means no John Carter, no Real Steel, no Superman reboot and no Dark Knight Rises, among others.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 23

Is Tintin Lost in the Uncanny Valley?

You guys, you guys! The first trailer for the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin animated cinema spectacular is here! But while it’s supposedly a gigantic step forward in motion capture technology, I can’t help but notice something’s missing. Something important. As hyper-real as Tintin and Thomson and Thompson and that plane crash (my goodness!) look from…

Movies Brian Barrett May 17

First Tintin movie trailer reveals a pirate mystery and his loyal dog Snowy

The first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is out. Even though we don’t see the characters’ mouths jabbering, Snowy (“Milou” to all you Francophones) and the Unicorn pirate ship look rather nifty. Tintin hits theaters December 23, 2011. And for more of Tintin’s (unofficial) forays into cinema,…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar May 17

The lost adventures of Tintin take us to Tatooine and Mars

We’ve previously featured parodies of globe-trotting Tintin covers, and here are 12 more of his never-was escapades. Watch as Hergé’s boy adventurer, his faithful dog Snowy, and Captain Haddock battle the Teen Titans and enter the Grid. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 https://gizmodo.com/is-this-tintins-final-xenomorphic-adventure-5791602 By Luc Jacamont This cover by Joost Verkamp shows what happened if Tintin in Tibet went…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Is this Tintin’s final, xenomorphic adventure?

Dan Hipp of The Amazing Joy Buzzards has drafted this awesome fake cover to one of Tintin’s never-was adventures. It looks like he’s in for a rough time, but hey, he’s been to R’lyeh and Innsmouth. He’ll come up aces. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 I bet in this book we learn that either Thomson or Thompson is a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 13

Watch a new Thor clip and featurette, and learn who the Avengers villain isn’t. Plus Total Recall gets a heroine!

Wake up with spoilers! The Avengers’ villain isn’t the actor you might be expecting, and a surprising candidate is in talks to direct The Wolverine. A Thor clip and featurette reveal more about the Thunder God’s Earthly soujourn. There’s also a startling backwards message from the Fringe universe, some Tron 3 hints from the director,…

Television Gordon M. Jackson and Charlie Jane Anders Apr 11

“Tozo” is a Tintin-inspired retrofuturistic murder mystery

The webcomic Tozo: The Public Servant takes Hergé’s visual style and transports it to a retrofuturistic universe where a murdered bureaucrat draws an earnest public servant-and his robot companion-into a web of political and religious conspiracies. The tone for David O’Connell’s Tozo is neatly set by the name of the city-state in which it is…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 19

Has The Dark Knight Rises already started filming? Plus The Avengers might have added another new SHIELD agent!

The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t start filming in earnest until the Spring, but they might actually be shooting some key location shots this week. A bizarre press release might have revealed a new Avengers character. Plus Roberto Orci talks bringing Ender’s Game to the screen, Jamie Bell explains the voice of Tintin, we have some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 10

55 Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies to Watch Out For in 2011

Could this be the biggest year ever for fantastical movies? It certainly looks like it. The calendar is bursting with films about aliens, weird creatures, superheroes and magical worlds. Here’s our complete guide to 2011’s science fiction and fantasy films. We know, 55 films seems like a lot. We aimed to do a list of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5

Tintin meets H.P. Lovecraft in this mind-bending mash-up art

Tintin is known for visiting exotic locales, and artist Murray Groat has plopped the boy adventurer in such fantastical destinations as Innsmouth and R’lyeh. Watch Hergé’s hero run afoul of the Reanimator and Cthulhu. Seventy-seven shuffling shambling shifty-eyed shoggoths! [Murray Groat via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 22

Four Images That Prove Tintin Could Be an Unforgettably Beautiful Movie

The New Tintin Movie Needs to Use This Sweet Animation Video

Eight new Tintin clips take Steven Spielberg’s adventure out of the Uncanny Valley

Action-packed Adventures of Tintin trailer hints how the movie’s different from the comics

The Brand New Tintin Trailer Looks Better Every Time I Watch It

10 Ways Steven Spielberg Has Made the World a Better Place

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

What if Tintin had his own Iron Man armor?

Our first glimpse of Tintin was luminous

First Full Tintin Trailer: Maybe This Motion Capture Thing Isn’t So Bad

Why are Superman, Batman and the Avengers staying away from Comic-Con?

Is Tintin Lost in the Uncanny Valley?

First Tintin movie trailer reveals a pirate mystery and his loyal dog Snowy

The lost adventures of Tintin take us to Tatooine and Mars

Is this Tintin’s final, xenomorphic adventure?

Watch a new Thor clip and featurette, and learn who the Avengers villain isn’t. Plus Total Recall gets a heroine!

“Tozo” is a Tintin-inspired retrofuturistic murder mystery

Has The Dark Knight Rises already started filming? Plus The Avengers might have added another new SHIELD agent!

55 Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies to Watch Out For in 2011

Tintin meets H.P. Lovecraft in this mind-bending mash-up art

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