Movie about Tintin and his dog Snowy in the works


Posted on Jun 10, 2008
By Julia Szabo

The subject of boys and their dogs is always timely in the world of film, where Stephen Spielberg will direct a live-action version of Tintin, the hugely popular Belgian comic books chronicling the adventures of a boy named Tintin and his white terrier, Snowy.
 
IMDB lists the 2009 movie's status as "pre-production," and so far FetchDog friend Eric Stoltz is rumored to have the part of Dr. Krospell. Filming is expected to begin in September, and rabid Tintin fans can hardly wait. Already, more than one unofficial web site about the movie has cropped up on the 'net.
 
According to Variety, performance-capture technology - famed for its role in animating Gollum in The Lord of the Rings - will be used to translate the drawings of Hergé, Tintin's creator, into not one but three features that will be shot back-to-back, with the first installment directed by Spielberg and the second by Rings director Peter Jackson (the director of the third movie is as yet undecided). Actor Andy Serkis, the actor who embodied Gollum, will also star in Tintin.
 
While awaiting the film's completion and release, Tintin fans can travel to Brussels to see the Musée de la Bande Dessinee, a museum dedicated to the art of the cartoon strip that has an impressive Tintin collection. Passengers stopping at the Brussels-South railway station can even travel with Tintin; last year, the station was decorated with a Tintin fresco to honor the centennial of Hergé's birth. 
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