Speilberg/Jackson TinTin filming complete (details inside)

[Julius Seeker]

-The film is currently in a long post production
-release date Christmas 2011
-Starring: Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Cary Elwes, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, and Nick Frost.
-Director Steven Spielberg
-Producer Peter Jackson
-Budget: 135 million
-Based on the books Crab with the Golden Claws, Secret of the Unicorn, and Red Rakham's treasure.
-At least two sequels planned

It looks like they're following the TV series timeline rather than the books though, these were the first episodes of the TV series but were about 40% through the book series.
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[bovine]

3d!

[Mental]

Hah, that's awesome.

I tend to be more of an Asterix fan when it comes to famous French comics, myself, but I think this is cool.

[SineSwiper]

Why?

[RentCavalier]

Because Asterix is fucking AWESOME?

[SineSwiper]

It's a movie about a dog, right?

[Julius Seeker]

I think you are thinking of Rin tin tin. This is something totally different.

It's a book series about a Belgian international reporter in a slightly fictionalized Earth based on the world between about 1930 and 1950. While it is mostly the same, some major ones like Nazi Germany and the USSR have been replaced with the military dictatorship super-power of Borduria; just because of controversy during the time and the fact that Herge wrote through World War 2.

One of the first stories is how TinTin was reporting on a Pharoah's curse in newly discovered ruins. Upon digging further information, he discovers that not only is the whole thing a hoax, but the ruins are part of a storage facility for an International opium smuggling chain which spans from Europe, to Africa, to the Middle East, India, and China; headed by the Japanese Empire who use their newly acquired funds and criminal links throughout the world to create a false justification for the invasion of China.

The books have also sold hundreds of millions. They're very well known throughout the world.

[Mental]

What Seek said.

[RentCavalier]

I love Tin Tin, it's both incredibly nostalgic and yet strangely exotic, blending familiar cultural 40's-50's norms with refreshingly simple story telling and engaging, winding plotlines.

[Julius Seeker]

It also has a very Noir style feeling to it as well.

TinTin is also one tough mofo, he gets smacked around with clubs, shot at, but alway just grins and comes back with the one-punch-KO =P

[Flip]

yup, looks tough.

[Julius Seeker]

He's way tougher than he looks =P