The Adventures of Tin Tin – The Secret of the Unicorn0

Written by Adrian Lim

In a recent event, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson chose Empire mag­a­zine to reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Headed our way next October, the film adapts the enor­mously pop­u­lar books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form. They quoted:

“With live action you’re going to have actors pre­tend­ing to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be cast­ing peo­ple to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be some­what dif­fer­ent. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised car­i­ca­tured faces, keep every­thing look­ing like Hergé’s art­work, but make it photo-real.” 

So my ques­tion is “WHY BOTHER?” Why can’t they just make a fan­tas­tic kick ass ani­ma­tion that look like the orig­i­nal with sweep­ing cam­eras and real­is­tic ani­ma­tion movements?