You’ve got to hand it to Paramount, they have dominated the news cycle at the beginning of this week with news, reviews, posters, a new trailer and interviews centered on their upcoming animated feature The Adventures of Tintin, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson with Spielberg taking the director’s chair on this first installment.
I’ll begin with the early reviews as The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Indiewire lavish praise on the film, suggesting we’re in store for “one thrilling set-piece after another” “with subtle finesse throughout, exploiting 3D’s potential just enough to make the action scenes that much more effective without overdoing it” resulting in “a good ol’ fashioned adventure flick that harkens back to the [Steven Spielberg]’s action-packed, tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers of the 1980s.”
Of course, the film doesn’t hit stateside theaters until December 21, so we’re talking about praise that’s going to have to stick around for some time. No worries, it appears Paramount has more up their sleeve.
Today we get the following brief, four-minute interview session with Spielberg and Jackson courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter as the two discuss the genesis and production of the film.
Then we have the following new trailer that was just released on top of two new posters I showed you late last night.
You can watch the high-definition version of the above trailer at Apple and get more on Tintin right here.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Defiance) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Defiance) as the nefarious Red Rackham. Bell and Craig are joined by an international cast that includes Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name “Herge” and is due for release in 2011. Executive producers are Nick Rodwell, Stephane Sperry and Ken Kamins. Paramount Pictures will release domestically and in all English speaking territories and Asia, excluding India. Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute the film in Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and the remainder of the world.
