DreamWorks does Tintin
will make series of film based on Hergé's beloved character
(Source: www.comingsoon.net)
DreamWorks has always been about the franchise, and now they have control of another one. The studio announced that they are making a movie based on Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular comics of the 20th Century.
Hergé's stories about the plucky Belgian journalist and his faithful wire fox terrier Milou (that's Milou, not Snowy, dammit!) have been translated into 50 languages and have sold over 200 million copies.
The studio is now in pre-production of the movie, which should hit theatres in the next 2 years. It's not known at this time whether Tintin will be live-action or CGI animation, or which stories will be adapted for the silver screen.
Nick Rodwell, a relative of Herge's widow and representative of his company, added that "if movie No. 1 works, we will continue" with sequels.
DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg has owned the film rights to Tintin since 1983, the same year that Hergé (real name Georges Remi) died.
Fun Fact: On June 1, 2006, the Dalai Lama honoured the book Tintin in Tibet with the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth award. Five years earlier, Hergé's company had demanded the recall of the Chinese translation of the book, when the Chinese government retitled it Tintin in China's Tibet.
