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August 30, 2008

Moffat Denies Tintin Movie Row

Moffat Clears Up Wild Tintin Movie Rumours

 

Steven Moffat has cleared up some of the rumours surrounding the fact he “quit” the Tintin movie project when he accepted the job of taking over from Russell T Davies to become lead writer on the hit British TV show Doctor Who.

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Newspaper reports claimed he “turned down” a two film deal with Spielberg; Moffat calls this “a bit misleading”.Steven Moffat.jpg

Moffat’s original plan was to finish the Tintin movie project before starting with Doctor Who. This idea came to an abrupt halt with the US writer’s strike. In May it was announced that Steven Moffat would replace Russell T Davies as lead writer and executive producer on Doctor Who.

Moffat was heard saying "nothing less than Doctor Who could have torn me away" from Tintin, which he described as a "stunning project" he was "proud" to be part of but it was "the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the Tardis", he added.

tintin&snowy.jpgMoffat when onto clarify the time frame of the deal saying that he had not accepted the offer to replace Davies during the three months writer’s strike which ended in February of this year. Moffat claims the deal was already all in the works. "The strike just meant that I was unable to finish my work on the Tintin film given my new commitments."  

Moffat went onto to say that Spielberg had been "very patient and understanding about the situation, despite the problems it created".

Moffat also claims that the reports suggesting Spielberg was the guy to bring him on board are inaccurate; it was in fact Peter Jackson who knew of his writing talents and that the astronomical fees being bounded about for his role in the Tintin movie project  " are also entirely speculative and wildly inaccurate".

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Tintin Movie May Find Trouble

Could Spielbeg's Dreamworks Purchase Lead to Tintin Movie Production Trouble?

Is there going to be trouble with Tintin movie trilogy? With the first Tintin movie nearly ready to be filmed in earnest there is trouble brewing behind the scenes. The Tintin filmviacom.gif trilogy is being made by Dreamworks which is partly Spielberg’s production company but owned by Viacom via its subsidiary Paramount. The problem arises because Spielberg is in the process of buying back Dreamworks for a reported US$1.2 billion from Viacom. 

This unfortunately makes any current movies in the works up for discussion as to who will own what after any deal takes place. Will the current Dreamworls/Paramount productions be able to continue or will they be delayed until any deal is done or solution worked out.

Whatever happens please be assured that we at letintinmovie.com will try and keep you in the loop as much as we can.

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July 26, 2008

Tintin Movie Steven Moffat Shock

Has Steven Moffat Walked Away From The Tintin Movie?

Bad news for all those people looking forward to the Tintin movie trilogy as there is a rumour that Steven Moffat who wrote the first script of the Tintin movie trilogy has walked away from the Tintin movie project. The source material is from the Daily Mail (a tabloid paper in England).

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The paper claims that Moffat was contacted to write the first two Tintin movies for £1 million. After completing the first script the writers strike unfortunately reared its head and Moffat wassteven_moffat.jpg unable to work on the second script. In the intervening time Moffat was offered another contract with the BBC in England to write for the stunningly successful Dr. Who series. Moffat is a celebrated Dr. Who fan has accepted the offer thus turning down £500,000 and walking away from a second Spielberg/Jackson Tintin move.

Moffat will be sadly missed by all those involved with the Tintin movie project and Tintin fans as Moffat has a great history of being able to write great scripts whilst still maintaining the integrity of the source material. Moffat can make a story contemporary whilst keeping the feel of the original adventure.

If this Tintin movie rumour is true then it can only lead to more speculation as Spielberg and Jackson now have to find a writer to fill the huge void left by Moffat. Spielberg has been a huge Tintin fan for a number of years and has been waiting to make a Tintin movie for over 25 years.

Anyone who is brought to the Tintin movie project has a big task ahead. Be sure to come back to letintinmovie.com soon as we will try and be the first to bring you news of any new writer developments.

Here is the original Daily Mail Story

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June 30, 2008

Very Cool Tintin Art From Javas

Le Tintin Movie Recommends Javas Art

Hi everyone and thanks for visiting my site. I don’t any news at the moment but came across something very cool that is fresh and is a modern take on Tintin.

If you like the art below then visit his page at Javas Art.

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Watch Tintin In Tibet Tibet At Le Tintin Movie

Le Tintin Movie Brings You Tintin In Tibet

Welcome to Le Tintin Movie were we bring you the latest in Tintin Movie news from the upcoming films to be made by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. At the moment there isn’t much to report so in the meantime after the popularity of our posting of The Calculus Affair and Tintin In Tibet on this site we have decided to bring you another Tintin cartoon. We have chosen Tintin In Tibet.

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Tintin InTibet Storyline

Whilst on holiday in a resort in Vargese with Captain haddock and Professor Calculus Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Gosain Than Massif in the Himalayas. That evening at their hotel, Tintin dozes off while playing chess with the Captain, who is having trouble deciding his next move. Tintin has a vivid dream that his young Chinese friend Chang Chog-Chen(see The Blue Lotusfor back story) survived a plane crash, and awakes with a violent start, yelling "Chang!" and throwing the whole recreation room into chaos. The next morning, he reads in the paper that Chang was aboard the plane that crashed in Tibet. Believing that his dream was a telepathic vision, Tintin travels to Kathmandu with Snowy, followed by a skeptical Captain Haddock. They meet with a sherpa named Tharkey, and accompanied by some porters, they travel from Nepal to the crash site in Tibet.

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Upon entering Tibet, they discover footprints in the snow that Tharkey claims belong to the yeti. The porters abandon the group in fear, and Tintin, Haddock and Tharkey go on, taking the porters' loads as well. They reach the crash site, where Tintin finds a teddy bear half-buried in the snow, which he believes may have belonged to Chang. Tintin sets off with Snowy to try and trace Chang's steps, and find a cave where Chang carved his name on a rock, proving that he survived the crash. Following a snowstorm in which Tintin falls down a crevasse, he rejoins Haddock and Tharkey, who had sheltered in the plane.

Tharkey decides not to go on any further, believing Chang to be dead, and Tintin, Snowy and Haddock travel in the direction of a scarf that Tintin spotted on a cliff face. While attempting to climb upwards, Haddock loses his grip and hangs perilously over a cliff edge, impaling Tintin, who is attached to the other end of the rope, upon a rock. He tells Tintin to cut the rope to save himself, but Tintin refuses, saying that they will either both be saved or they die together. Tharkey, moved by Tintin's selflessness, returns just in time to save them. That night, they pitch their tent in a storm, but it blows away, into the face of the yeti. They trek onwards, unable to sleep, and eventually arrive within sight of the Bhuddist monastery of Khor-Biyong before collapsing due to exhaustion. An avalanche occurs, and they are buried in the snow.

Blessed Lightning, a telepathic monk at the monastery, 'sees' Tintin, Snowy, Haddock and Tharkey in the snow, in a vision. Up in the mountains, Tintin regainstntin in tibet cover.jpg consciousness and, unable to reach the monastery himself, writes a note and gives it to Snowy to deliver. Snowy lets go of the message when he finds a bone, but then realises what he's done, and runs to the monastery to make someone follow him. The monks head after him.

Two days later, Captain Haddock awakes to find himself in the monastery. He joins Tintin and Tharkey in an audience with the monks. After Tintin tells the Grand Abbot why they are there, the Abbot tells him to abandon his quest and return to his country. However, Blessed Lightning has another vision, through which Tintin learns that Chang is still alive, in a mountain cave, but that the "migou", or yeti, is also there. Haddock doesn't believe the vision is genuine, but the Abbot explains to him that many things that occur in Tibet seem unbelievable to Westerners. Given directions by the Abbot, Tintin travels to Charabang, a small village near the Horn of the Yak, the mountain mentioned by Blessed Lightning. Haddock initially refuses to follow Tintin anymore, but soon changes his mind and pursues him to Charabang. The two of them, and Snowy, head to the Horn of the Yak on the final lap of their journey.

They wait outside until they see the yeti leave the cave. Tintin ventures inside with a camera to look for Chang, having been told by the Captain to take a photograph of the yeti if he can. Inside the cave, Tintin finally finds Chang, who is feverish and shaking. The yeti returns to the cave before Haddock can warn Tintin, and he reacts with anger upon seeing Tintin taking Chang away. He reaches toward Tintin, setting off the flash bulb of the camera, and the yeti, frightened by the light, runs out of the cave, bowling over the Captain, who has come to save Tintin. The two of them carry Chang back to the village of Charabang, and he tells the story of how he survived, and how the yeti took care of him. Along the way, they briefly encounter the yeti, who is scared off by Haddock, leading Chang to sympathize with yeti, calling him "Poor Snowman". Tintin notes that Chang, the only person to have known the yeti, didn't refer to him as "abominable". "Of course I don't, Tintin,""he took care of me. Without him I'd have died of cold and hunger." They are later met by the Grand Abbot and an envoy of monks, who present Tintin with a silk scarf in honour of the bravery he has shown, and the strength of his friendship to Chang. The monks take them back to Khor-Biyong, and after a week, when Chang has recovered, they return to Nepal by caravan. As their party travels away from the monastery, Chang muses that the yeti is no wild animal, but instead has a human soul, while the yeti sadly watches their departure from a distance. replies Chang, , "he took care of me. Without him I'd have died of cold and hunger." They are later met by the Grand Abbot and an envoy of monks, who present Tintin with a silk scarf in honour of the bravery he has shown, and the strength of his friendship to Chang. The monks take them back to Khor-Biyong, and after a week, when Chang has recovered, they return to Nepal by caravan. As their party travels away from the monastery, Chang muses that the yeti is no wild animal, but instead has a human soul, while the yeti sadly watches their departure from a distance.

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June 24, 2008

Watch Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh at Le Tintin Movie

Le Tintin Movie Brings You Cigars of the Pharaoh

Welcome to Le Tintin Movie were we bring you the latest in Tintin Movie news from the upcoming films to be made by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. At the moment there isn’t much to report so in the meantime after the popularity of our posting of The Calculus Affair on this site we have decided to bring you another Tintin cartoon. We have chosen Cigar of the Pharaoh.

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The Storyline of The Cigars of the Pharaoh

Tintin and his dog Snowy are on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea when they meet Dr Sarcophagus, an Egyptologist who owns a papyrus that he believes will lead him to thecigar of the pharaoh image.jpg undiscovered tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh (a pun on kiosk, a newspaper stand). He invites Tintin to accompany him. Tintin also has an unpleasant encounter with Roberto Rastapopoulos, a wealthy businessman.

Later on the cruise, Tintin first meet the Thompson and Thomson, who accuse him of smuggling heroin they have found in his cabin. Locked in the hold of the ship, Tintin craftily escapes and meets Sarcophagus in Port Said, Egypt.

Tintin and Sarcophagus set off and discover the tomb of Kih-Oskh. On a nearby sand dune, Tintin finds a cigar bearing the symbol of Kih-Oskh — a circle with a wavy line through it and two dots on it, rather like a yin-yang symbol. But when he returns to the tomb, Sarcophagus has disappeared.

Entering the tomb, Tintin and Snowy are startled several times by doors closing behind them. They come to a room where rows of Egyptologists are mummified. At the end of the row are empty sarcophagi with notices to indicate that they are intended for Tintin, Snowy (and Sarcophagus too in the later edition). Following items of Sarcophagus' clothing which have been left lying about, Tintin enters another room where drugged vapour puts him to sleep.

That night drug smugglers embark some sarcophagi aboard a ship but they are later cast overboard. The sarcophagi contain Tintin and Snowy who thus escape mummification. They are rescued from a gigantic wave by the crew of sailing ship. On it they meet Senhor Oliviera de Figueira, a Portuguese salesman who travels the Middle East selling to local Arabs. He persuades Tintin to buy a top hat, ski poles, a dog-house on wheels, and a lead for Snowy, and the overloaded Tintin walks away saying "Just as well I didn't fall for his patter; you can end up with all sorts of useless stuff if you're not careful".

Tintin then sets out across the desert and is captured by the men of Sheik Patrash Pasha. He hates Westerners but is then delighted to discover that his captive is Tintin, whose exploits he has read of for years, and even shows one of the Tintin books that he has read (the exact book is different depending on the version, but it is always the most recent to have been published; in the first black and white strip, it is Tintin in the Congo; in the second it is, Tintin in America; and in the colour version, it is Destination Moon).

 Resuming his journey Tintin sees a woman being beaten by two men and rushes to her aid. The woman turns out to be an actress filming a movie that Rastapopoulos is making. The director is furious but Rastapopoulos is much calmer. He and Tintin apologise to each other over the incidents on the cruise ship and the filming and become friends.

When Tintin returns to the boat, he discovers that it has been smuggling guns. There is a lengthy comic sequence involving Thompson and Thomson who accuse him of being the smuggler. They hurry off when they think a grenade is due to explode, enabling Tintin to get away.

 In Arabia, Tintin is walking in the desert when his water bottle is shot at and pierced by an unknown gunman. Desperate for water he sets off only to meet Thomson & Thompson who give chase. Later they hit an Arab on the head, mistaking him for Tintin. When Tintin reaches a local city he finds a procession of armed Arabs who claim that one of their sheiks was attacked by two members of a rival tribe, thus providing a pretext for war. Tintin is enlisted by force into the army.

 
While cleaning the local colonel's office, he finds a cigar label with Kih-Oskh's sign. He searches the office for a box of cigars hoping that they will provide a clue but is caught in the act by the colonel and charged with spying. He is executed by firing squad, but does not actually die: the firing squad's rifles had been loaded with blanks. Placed in a ventilated grave, Tintin is later dug up by a pair of mysterious allies dressed as veiled women. These 'allies' are actually Thomson & Thompson again, who were determined to capture him alive and arranged for his death to be faked. 

Tintin flees the city in a military airplane pursued by others. To save himself he takes a dive and lands in India. There Tintin finds Sarcophagus who is painting the sign of Kih-Oskh on the trees. He has gone completely mad and thinks that he is another Pharaoh, Ramesses II.

cigar of the pharaoh picture.jpgTintin and Sarcophagus are taken by an elephant to a local colonial outpost. Later, the mad Sarcophagus escapes and tries to kill Tintin with a knife. It soon transpires that he was hypnotised by a local Fakir who wants Tintin dead. Some remarks by the Fakir lead Tintin to Zloty, a Hungarian writer, who explains that an international gang of drug smugglers is out to dispose of Tintin. At gunpoint, Tintin orders Zloty to give him the name of the gang's leader but, before he can, the Fakir, from outside the window, blows a dart at Zloty. Zloty goes mad because the dart was tipped with Rajaijah juice, the poison-of-madness.

Tintin takes Sarcophagus and Zloty to the asylum with a letter from a local doctor, but the Fakir has substituted the letter and through a misunderstanding Tintin ends up imprisoned. He escapes by jumping on an obese inmate and over the wall. Snowy is unable to keep up with Tintin and is almost sacrificed by angry Indians for frightening their holy cow. The little dog is saved by Thomson & Thompson, acting as Nataraja. They then use Snowy to track down his master, whom they are still determined to arrest.

Tintin's escape from the asylum is reported and he is recaptured at a train station. The ambulance taking him back to the asylum crashes into the car driven by Sarcophagus and Zloty. Tintin escapes and later meets the Maharaja of Gaipajama. Over dinner they hear music which the Maharaja believes is a warning that he will be driven insane like his relatives due to their opposition to the drug cartel and its oppression of the local farmers.

Tintin arranges for a dummy to be put in the Maharaja's bed. That night the dummy is hit by a dart fired by the fakir. Tintin follows the fakir to the cartel's hideout. The members within dress up in outfits that bear the symbol of Kih-Oskh and make them look rather like the Ku Klux Klan (as Tintin comments in the English edition). He manages to capture the gang which includes the Fakir, the Arab colonel and several others he met in the course of the adventure. He is later joined by the Maharaja, Snowy and the Thompson twins. Meanwhile, the tomb of Kih-Oskh is found by the Egyptian police. It contains evidence of Tintin's innocence and a map showing them to the hideout.

The Fakir manages to escape, however, and later he and the cartel's Grand Master kidnap the Maharaja's young son. Tintin chases them into the Himalayas, recovers the prince and captures the Fakir. But the cartel leader falls off a cliff and (presumably) dies.

Later on, the Maharaja informs Tintin that one of the captured members of the cartel was a servant of his. In examining cigars found in his room, Tintin discovers that cigars bearing the "Kih-Oskh" label contain heroin, revealing the means by which the cartel smuggled drugs.

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