Tintin

New images from the Tintin movie reveal Thomson and Thompson, the endless desert

Earlier this week, images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn hit the web. Here are some more shots from the film, including our first look at Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s hapless detective duo, Thomson and Thompson. https://gizmodo.com/check-out-the-first-images-from-steven-spielbergs-tinti-5678314 It’s a safe guess that these are from Empire magazine’s November issue, which is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Check out the first images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie

The first screenshots from The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn have hit the web. Check out Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis as the motion capture incarnations of boy reporter Tintin and boozy sea dog Captain Haddock, respectively. This film adaptation of Hergé’s comic serial, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and co-produced by…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

Fantastic scifi graphic novels (that will get you hooked for life)

Comic books can be a difficult to get into, what with their years of serial storytelling and convoluted continuity. Luckily, there are plenty of one-and-done graphic novels out there. Here are some of the best four-color gateway drugs. In picking these books, I tried to avoid picking from the über-obvious (Watchmen) and those books about…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 30

Tintin will make you cry

This heartbreaking rendering of Herge’s homesick hero comes from Francesco Francavilla — one of the comic artists of that Comic Twart collective we told you about. And this week, they’re giving their love to Tintin. https://gizmodo.com/comic-artists-take-on-science-adventurer-jonny-quest-5517918

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin Jun 24

Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up?

The pulp science fiction renaissance has begun. Edgar Rice Burroughs and E.E. “Doc” Smith both have Hollywood blockbusters in the pipeline. The Burroughs-inspired Avatar broke DVD sales records. But can today’s creators update pulp storylines without including the cultural baggage? Old-school pulp storytelling is a thing of wonder and fascination. It’s hard not to be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 30

Tintin Goes To Court

Tintin, the globe-trotting boy reporter, has gotten himself into yet another scrape — one of his books is in danger of being banned in his native land of Belgium. According to the Guardian: A Congolese man living in Belgium is trying to have Tintin in the Congo banned in the boy reporter’s native country, almost…

Books & Comics Mark Charan Newton Apr 29

Is Peter Jackson Secretly Preparing To Film Philip Reeve’s Traction Cities Epic?

Rumor has it Peter Jackson‘s not content with filming Lovely Bones, Lord Of The Rings and Tintin. He’s also secretly working on a movie of Philip Reeve‘s Mortal Engines, about cities that become mobile and try to eat each other. Stuff NZ reports: The hush-hush project is understood to be in early development, with work…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Dec 21

Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?

With scripts from the new Doctor Who boss, direction from Peter Jackson and a cast that includes Simon Pegg, there’s only one thing stopping Tintin from being perfect: It’s not scifi. We can’t tell you how much we want the upcoming Tintin movies to be sci-fi; what genre wouldn’t want to claim a couple of…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jan 8

Spielberg’s Chocky To Cutify My Childhood Again

I admit it, I’m completely torn on how to feel about the news that Steven Spielberg is looking to adapt John Wyndham’s Chocky into a big-screen extravaganza. On the one hand, the book — well, the TV versions of it, really — were a strangely important part of my childhood, and I’d love to share…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 26

New Who Chief Abandons Spielberg, Teenage Boy For Childhood Love

Just how much did Steven Moffat want to take control of Doctor Who? Apparently enough to turn down half a million dollars and tell Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson that he’d rather not work with them after all, according to a recent newspaper interview that the new Who-master gave over the weekend. Given the choice…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 22

New images from the Tintin movie reveal Thomson and Thompson, the endless desert

Check out the first images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie

Fantastic scifi graphic novels (that will get you hooked for life)

Tintin will make you cry

Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up?

Tintin Goes To Court

Is Peter Jackson Secretly Preparing To Film Philip Reeve’s Traction Cities Epic?

Is Tintin A Near-Perfect Storm Of Genre Movie-Making?

Spielberg’s Chocky To Cutify My Childhood Again

New Who Chief Abandons Spielberg, Teenage Boy For Childhood Love

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