TinTin to be remade by Spielberg and Jackson

(21 May 2007)
1. Zoom in on Tintin murial fresco
2. Various of Tintin boutique
3. Wide of Tintin books on display
4. Mid of Tintin books
5. Close-up of display
6. Tilt down from Herge pictures to Tintin figurines
7. Exterior of Belvue museum
8. Tilt down Herge exhibition poster
9. Visitors at the centennial Herge exhibit
10. Visitor taking a photo at exhibit
11. Mid of Herge and Tintin rocket
12. SOUNDBITE (English): Nick Rodwell, Director of Studios Herge:
"We have been negotiating since 1982. And finally they have found the right technique. And we are delighted. I think it is a real dream team and you can't get better than Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson."
13. Tilt down Tintin depiction
14. SOUNDBITE (English): Nick Rodwell, Director of Studios Herge:
"We feel that everything is in the books, in the same way, for Lord of the Rings and in the same way as Harry Potter. Of course there is going to be adaptations; but our wish and our dream is that they don't forget to read the Bible and the Bible is in the Tintin books."
15. Cutaway Tintin exhibition panel
16. SOUNDBITE (English): Nick Rodwell, Director of Studios Herge:
"It is truly amazing to start working in the museum today, officially; which will open in two years. And if our American and New-Zealand colleagues decide to go ahead with the film, normally these films come out minimum two years after they go into production, maximum three years. So if all goes well the museum and the film will happen at the same time. So we will all be together in two and a half years time."
17. Wide of Tintin exhibition
SPIELBERG AND JACKSON TO REMAKE 'TINTIN'
Blistering barnacles! Talk about a bunch of birthday presents for Tintin : A movie trilogy directed by Hollywood's greatest and a brand-new museum.
Herge, who created Tintin, was born a century ago on Tuesday and even if the cartoonist died in 1983, his hero is as young and dashing as ever.
With exhibits in Brussels, Ostend, and abroad in Paris, Lausanne, Barcelona and Stockholm, Tintin does the tour of Europe this year.
On Monday, the first stone was laid for an Herge Museum and an exhibit on Herge's drawing skills, marked by the so-called clear line, opened at the Belvue museum on the doorstep of the Royal Palace.
Yet nothing could match last week's announcement that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson each plan to direct at least one film in a series of three movies based on the "Tintin" adventures.
''We have been negotiating since 1982. And finally they have found the right technique. And we are delighted,'' said Nick Rodwell, the head of Studios Herge said. ''I think it is a real dream team and you can't get better than Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.''
Given the time to build the museum and to produce the first movie would make it a great year for Tintin lovers in 2009.
''If all goes well the museum and the film will happen at the same time,'' he added.
The films will be produced with motion-capture technology, in which digital renderings are made of performances by live actors, with computer imagery added to create a combination of live action layered with digital animation.
It is a huge leap from the simple black-and-white drawing with which Herge, the reverse acronym for Georges Remi, first drew Tintin and his trusty dog Snowy in 1929 and sent them on their first adventure to ''The land of the Soviets.''
The exhibit at Belvue traces those stark beginnings and leads it through his artistic development, right up to the sleek rocket with which he went up to the moon in an exciting double-album adventure.

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