Steven Spielberg’s 3D debut, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, has finally got a release date – and the good news is that we Brits will get to see it long before Johnny Yank! Huzzah! Three cheers for King George and Andrew Strauss! God save the Queen!
The mocap extravaganza, the first of a planned two-parter (the second instalment will be directed by Peter Jackson), will hit our shores in late October/early November, thanks to a belief by Sony Pictures and Paramount Pictures that Tintin has greater overseas appeal. They may be right.
The US will get to see the bequiffed boy detective solve a mysterious crime on December 23, 2011, which currently puts it up against Disney/Pixar’s The Bear And The Bow, and George Miller’s Happy Feet 2. With three animated films on one weekend, we’d bet that one of them will move before long. Our money’s on the Happy Feet sequel.
After all, if Tintin moves back in the month, it will come up against another Jackson film, the first part of Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit, and nobody wants to see that happen.
In case you didn’t know, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, with the likes of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis and Mackenzie Crook rounding out the cast. Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish wrote the screenplay, along with Steven Moffatt. And it is going to be enormous fun.