Which Tintin should be made into a live action feature film first?

I think Calculus affair but set it in evil-Putin-era Russia.

gotta go with Arabian opium dreams

I like Flight 714 a lot too.

The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun should be one entry too. Mummy dreams are crazy!

Shark-shaped submarine!

My vote is the Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun too. The athmospherics in the first book are very creepy, I remember being scared of that mummy as a kid.

Plus the way Tintin handles the cliffhanger in the end of the second book is classy!

Black Island - high adventure, seaplanes, gorilla action, villainous German, nice scenery, Snowy getting drunk.

I suppose it should be a Haddock one really though.

I think Calculus affair but set it in evil-Putin-era Russia.

I just re-read this yesterday and it would be great--it even has Castafiore and Jolyon Wagg in it. My favorite bit is when Tintin and Haddock are talking about Calculus with that other professor who they find tied up in the coal cellar; Tintin and the professor are having an intense and detailed conversation, while Haddock's contributions are hints that he wants to drink the wine.

omg <3

My favorite bit is when Tintin and Haddock are talking about Calculus with that other professor who they find tied up in the coal cellar; Tintin and the professor are having an intense and detailed conversation, while Haddock's contributions are hints that he wants to drink the wine.

Fuck, I LOVE this scene, especially as the house blows up just before Haddock finally takes his first sip - and then he's dragged out of the rubble cradling the bottle.

As for the poll - I would've gone for 'live action Tintin should never be attempted no way ever ever'. But the most obviously cinematic is Crystal Balls/Prisoners, as people have pointed out. The Moon books would be, but they are disqualified because people have already landed on the moon and folk would laugh.

"I suppose this bottle was meant for him, then?"

the one where it's all racist

surely, the correct answer is "none". i love love love Tintin but i can think of few comic books less suitable for white screen adaption than these. i remember liking "Tintin and the Picaros", the drunk guerrillas and the carnival processions in especial, a lot as a child.

yeah i was just popping onto this thread to say i don't think it'd work.

i like "crab with the golden claws" and "shooting star" a lot. i use the picture of tintin holding the astronomer's calculations (from "the shooting star") as my work desktop.

i think it should be one with rastapopolous

Calculus affair seconded- I read it again yesterday and it is definitely on e of the funniest. By that stage Herge was such a master of timing- particularly the italian driver and sticking plaster sequences, though I'm not sure they'd work on film.

King Ottakar's Sceptre could work well. I suppose it really depends on whether they're going for a period piece or not.

Tintin In Tibet directed by David Lynch would be the greatest thing ever.

but who would play Tintin?

no no who would play tintin should be relatively easy except DI CAPRIO WTF IDIOTS WORLD FULL OF DEPLORABLE PATHETIC IDIOTS JESUS CHRIST WHAT IN FUCK HELL NEVER COULD I HAVE IMAGINED SUCH UNBELIEVABLE MORONS IDIOTS FUCK SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

really though I would ostensibly be more concerned with casting Haddock and Calculus but wow, those options for tintin, and di caprio winning, I used to think human beings had a right to live and pursue happiness and all that but no, they should be thrown in pens and eaten by hogs, it's true

Seconded.

I don't think they'd make good films either. The only people I can imagine doing it well would be Ernst Lubitsch (esp King Ottokar's Sceptre!) or Buster Keaton. A bit impractical, though!

1976 George Lucas could have made a good tintin movie.

CALCULUS AFFAIR OTM

Calculus is definitely the hardest to cast, though.

Nestor = Kevin Spacey

daniel craig as "skut"

how about paul reuben as tintin

Tintin In Tibet directed by David Lynch would be the greatest thing ever.

so... Justin Theroux as Tintin, then? (Kyle MacLachlan?)

isn't tintin supposed to be like perpetually 20 years old? I mean for real

daniel craig as skut is a pretty good one

I would be surprised if Peter Jackson is able to resist Tintin in the Congo.

use the picture of tintin holding the astronomer's calculations (from "the shooting star") as my work desktop.

^ ysi

xpost skut is among my favorites

surely, the correct answer is "none".

OTM x 80808080

i probably shouldn't admit this but me and my roommate call our house "marlinspike hall."

wasn't there something in that "postmodern tintin" novel about him having some disease that was like the opposite of methusalah syndrome?

that novel actually wasn't too bad! made me wonder if the author had read any michael moorcock because it definitely had that "fantasy hero commits self to void" thing about it that the jerry cornelius and elric novels had.

wasn't there something in that "postmodern tintin" novel about him having some disease that was like the opposite of methusalah syndrome?

it sucked

still can't cast calculus

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Rastapopoulus is hard too.

If there was someone fit to play Calculus, Werner Herzog would have made a documentary about him already.

i think i stole that image from ILX though - somebody else was using it as their desktop before me IIRC

maybe they could have a CGI calculus

his cranium is pretty improbable

they could just put a new skin over one of the models from mars attacks

calculus = dexter fletcher with a latex cap and some face pubes

Rick Moranis for Calculus? Hello? Anyone?

Moranis can't handle EXPLOSIVE RAGE

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(left: Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters. Right: Professor Calculus)

That's just because no one's ever called him a goat before.

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how about robert downey jr??

Also, the art in the moon books is particularly top notch! The reactor and spaceship interior

plus the "goat" sequence

It'd be a bad movie tho f'sure.

this is who calculus' real counterpart:

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I was thinking benecio del toro could be allan but there's so many possibilities for that kind of asshole. shit, you could use johnny knoxville or jason lee

Allan's obv modelled after Robert Mitchum

also in a movie version of 714 it is CRUCIAL that the costumes be accurate down to the stiching to the book, rastapopoulous' outfit is way to precious, and so is krollspell's bermuda shorts + black socks + blue chuck taylors combination

^^^^^OTM

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I remember they all had great machineguns...
Rasta-p's encounter with the spider

MDJRK

ha ha

or any book with a scene where the Captain ends up with a jellyfish on his head

I think some of the machineguns were RONG in that one.

don't you think allan should be a few years older than knoxville?

Kevin Costner in career-saving comic-dark role

surprised nobody posted this yet

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(sprockets voice) : "most ... disturbing"

what about a 3D/toy story type thing?

http://imagina.ina.fr/Imagina/96/PPI/Icon/tintin.jpg

I believe this thread was originally on ILM, probably in response to a thread I made claiming that Mike Watt of the Minutemen/fIREHOSE/many other fine musical projects should play Captain Haddock. Which I still believe. And I believe the other roles should be played by musicians I like as well. So Tintin=Justin Timberlake.

My scientific method was to read through the chronological list in my slightly drunken state and go "NAH", "NAH", "NAH" until I alighted on one that felt right and that was The Crab with the Golden Claws. First one that really lingered in my imagination and yes, Haddock.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Seven Crystal Balls scared the cack out of me when I was eight years old in hospital having my adenoids removed. The bit near the beginning when the witch doctor sneaks into someone's room and smashes a ball on the ground - frightening! So yeah, that one.

What was the really boring one that was basically an introduction to the one where they go into space and is basically Calculus just showing Tintin around the spaceship?

Not that one.

uhhhhh that one rules

Except that it's really really funny.

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stop acting the goat, the next grozart

although you are otm re: the seven crystal balls scaring me so badly i lost like six pounds in one night

I voted Cigars Of The Pharaoh, but it'd have to be directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul really.

Voted for Calculus Affair. I really don't want to happen but some of the suggestions in this thread have really got me thinking that it might not be such a bad idea!

Who am I kidding. It'll be fucking terrible.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I do not agree with these results + you are all hippies!!

+ TiT would really only look good in IMAX

TiT would be pretty fantastic as a kid's movie. I still would have preffered Calculus Affair.

oh i forgot to vote Picaros.

I read all of these at the ags of 7 and 8 years old (and many of them were in the original french) so my judgement may be completely skewed. I should go back and read them again.

What about Christopher Meloni as Allan?

where wuz I've nev read Tintin option?

some other thread

http://tintinesque.com/archives/001323.html

who's going to play snowy?

Asta

future mid-slump wes anderson to direct

fuck it, they should get Wes Anderson to star.

So, Steven Moffat to write this, then?

Moffat Writing DreamWorks' Tintin
Source: The Hollywood Reporter October 2, 2007

British scribe Steven Moffat is writing DreamWorks' Tintin, the movie trilogy collaboration from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg that adapts the European comic strip created by Herge, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Moffat is best known for penning the new "Doctor Who" series and the BBC's "Jekyll."

In the comics, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. He later was joined by such colorful characters as Captain Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson.

Kathleen Kennedy is serving as producer on the three feature films, which will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D. Jackson and Spielberg are each directing an installment, with the helmer of the third movie to be determined.

does anyone have an image of Calculus accusing people of calling him a goat?

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1656150

Andy Serkis, who played Golum in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, is set to portray Tintin's friend - Captain Haddock.

No offense to Andy Serkis, but I have a hard time imagining him as Captain Haddock. Okay, if it's all done with computers, he doesn't have to look like Haddock, but what about his voice? I always imagined the Captain would have a deep booming bass voice.

I agree with earlier posters: Brian Blessed FTW

john goodman, sorry

that'll be for the American remake, no problem

Serkis did "grizzled sea dog" fine in King Kong--he'll work out. he's elastic.