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Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment Announce the
January 26 Start of Principal Photography on the 3D Motion Capture
Feature 'The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn' Directed by
Steven Spielberg and Starring Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig.
{sidebar id=1}Spielberg Produces With Peter Jackson and
Kathleen Kennedy.
Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced the start of principal production in
Los Angeles on the 3D Motion Capture Film "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn," 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.
The second feature in the series is scheduled to be directed by Jackson, with a potential for a third film as well.
Eighty years ago, Herge introduced the world to a unique cast of characters who have been embraced by readers of all ages. The Adventures of Tintin
- a series of 24 books, the final unfinished adventure was published
after Herge's - death became Herge's life's work. The first adventure
was published in 1929. Over 200 million copies have been sold
worldwide. The popular series has been translated into 70 languages and
still attracts thousands of new fans each year.
Steven Spielberg and
Peter Jackson
will bring Herge's stories to life employing state-of-the-art
performance capture technology developed by Jackson's Weta Digital.
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