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.

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

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.

Moffat 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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