Door Jacques Heemskerk
Kuifje leeft! Zeven jaar na Het Geheim van de Eenhoornhoudt regisseur Steven Spielberg nog steeds vol dat er een vervolg komt. TheHobbit-regisseur Peter Jackson zal het tweede deel, gebaseerd op het striptweeluik De 7 kristallen bollen en De zonnetempel, voor zijn rekening nemen.
Geduld is wel aan de orde. “Als alles goed gaat, begint Peter binnenkort aan het scenario.” zegt Spielberg, “Maar daarna duurt het nog twee jaar om alles te animeren. We moeten de film dus pas binnen drie jaar verwachten.”
Bron: Vertigo.
Spielberg:
“Peter Jackson has to do the second part. Normally, if all goes well, he will soon start working on the script. As it takes two years of animation work on the film, for you, I would not expect to see it for about three years. But Peter will stick to it. Tintin is not dead!”
De afgelopen jaren werd er natuurlijk al vaker gezinspeeld op de verschijning van het vervolg:
Originally, the second Tintin film was going to be based on Hergé’s The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.[124] However, screenwriter Anthony Horowitz later stated that those books would be the second sequel and another story would become the first sequel.[125]
Peter Jackson announced that he would direct the sequel once he had finished The Hobbit trilogy.[124] Two years before The Secret of the Unicorn, Jackson mentioned that his favorite Tintin stories were The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, The Black Island, and The Calculus Affair, but he had not yet decided which stories would form the basis of the second film. He added “it would be great” to use Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon for a third or fourth film in the series.[126]
By the time The Secret of the Unicorn was released, Spielberg said the book that would form the sequel had been chosen and that the Thomson and Thompson detectives would “have a much bigger role”.[127] The sequel would be produced by Spielberg and directed by Jackson.[127] Kathleen Kennedy said the script might be completed by February or March 2012 and motion-captured in summer 2012, so that the film would be on track to be released by Christmas 2014 or mid-2015.[128]
In the months following the release of The Secret of the Unicorn, Spielberg revealed that a story outline for the sequel had been completed and that it was based on two books.[129] Horowitz tweeted that Professor Calculus would be introduced in the sequel.[130][131]During a press tour in Belgium for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Jackson said he intended to shoot performance-capture in 2013, aiming for a release date in 2015.[132]
In March 2013, Spielberg said, “Don’t hold me to it, but we’re hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we’re making, we can’t share that now but we’re combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Hergé.” He refused to confirm the names of the books, but said The Blue Lotus would probably be the third Tintin film.[133] In December 2014, when asked if the Tintin sequel would be his next project after The Hobbit trilogy, Jackson said that it would be made “at some point soon”. However, he added that he wanted to direct two New Zealand films before that.[134]
In June 2015, Jamie Bell stated that the sequel was titled Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and that he hoped shooting would begin in early 2016 for a possible release by the end of 2017 or early 2018.[135] In November 2015, Horowitz stated that he was no longer working on the sequel, and did not know if it was still being made,[136] and in March 2016, he confirmed that the script he had written for the sequel was scrapped.[137]
On 19 November 2015, Polygon announced that the sequel was titled The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun and that it would be released in December 2016.[138] On 18 March 2016, Scout.co.nz announced that Jackson would produce the sequel rather than direct, and that it would be released on 16 December. They also announced that a third Tintin film was in development, with Jackson serving as executive producer. Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis were reported to be reprising their roles in both the films,[139] but Serkis stated later in the month that he did not know when the sequel was going to enter production, despite claiming that Jackson was still interested in making it.[140]
In March 2018 Spielberg reiterated the above in saying “Peter Jackson has to do the second part. Normally, if all goes well, he will soon start working on the script. As it takes two years of animation work on the film, for you, I would not expect to see it for about three years. But Peter will stick to it. Tintin is not dead!” [141]
Bron: Wikipedia.
Lees ook: Filmpje kijken met het Hergé Genootschap.