Peter Jackson finally tackles the sequel to Tintin
“Fran and I are writing the script. Then we’ll send it to Steven Spielberg.”
Fourteen years after the release of Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicornproducer Peter Jackson assures today that the idea of a sequel has not been abandoned at all.
Present at the Cannes Film Festival last week, the New Zealand filmmaker confirmed that the screenplay is currently being written with his faithful collaborator Fran Walsh. Better yet: this sequel will resume directly after the end of the first film.
“All I can say for now is that it begins exactly where the previous film ended.“, revealed Peter Jackson, during an interview with IndieWire, without specifying which Hergé comic book he intends to adapt: “Literally, I’m in my hotel room writing the script and sending pages to New Zealand. But I haven’t written anything in the last two days because I was a little busy in Cannes… But tomorrow I’m going to go back to the draft and write a few new pages.”
Once this first version is completed, the script will be sent to Steven Spielberg, director of the first film and producer of this sequel, in order to collect his feedback:
“Fran and I are writing the script. Then we’ll send it to Steven. I think he will definitely have comments and notes to send me. We’ll go back and forth like that until we get a scenario that we really like. And at that moment we will reveal which Hergé albums will be adapted in this following.”
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, made in motion capture, was inspired by Crab with golden claws (1941), THE Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and Red Rackham’s Treasure (1944). The animated feature film grossed just under $400 million worldwide.
