Anthony Horowitz Writing Tintin Sequel ‘Prisoners Of The Sun’
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The first Tintin film,The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, with actors being directed in motion capture bySteven Spielberg, who passed off that raw data to WETA to animate, is still quietly in production. The actors wrapped a year and a half ago, we don’t see the film for several months, and there hasn’t even been a trailer yet. (There have beensome images, however.) But a secondTintinfilm is already in the works, and British writerAnthony Horowitzhas now confirmed that he is writing a script based on Hergé’s bookPrisoners of the Sun, which he saysPeter Jacksonwill direct.
The author toldRadio 5this week (viaBleeding Cool),
I’m writing a feature film even as we speak. I’ve been hired to write Tintin…
The Secret of the Unicorn is being directed by Steven Spielberg and was written originally by Steven Moffat, of course the writer of Doctor Who in this country. He did a couple of drafts then it was taken over by Edgar Wright… they’ve got [that] coming out at Christmas and if that film is a success and works and gets an audience I’m writing the sequel to it, Prisoners of the Sun, which Peter Jackson is going to direct.
The Spielberg/Jackson Tintin partnership was originally conceived as a way to do a couple films, but financing the first one turned into a tricky proposition. We still have no idea how the first film will play, but I’d be surprised if this sequel fails to happen. That said, if Peter Jackson is going to direct, the film won’t happen for some time, asThe Hobbitwill be in the way.
Prisoners of the Sunis the fourteenth Tintin book by Hergé, published in 1949, and which has already been used as raw material for a film (Tintin and the Temple of the Sun) and other media.Amazonsays,
