‘Tintin’ Movie: A Victim of the Credit Crunch?

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.24.08 | 10:20 AM ET

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Forget about concerns over who’ll be directing: Before anyone can get behind the camera, the “Tintin” movie needs someone to foot the bill.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Universal Pictures turned down a Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson pitch for a 3-D animated feature about the traveling boy detective. Writes the Times’ Claudia Eller: “Universal’s refusal to finance ‘Tintin’ underscores how in today’s tough economic climate, bottom-line concerns trump once-inviolable relationships between studios and talent.”

Of course, Tintin’s relative obscurity in the United States probably isn’t helping, either.

The Times notes that Spielberg and Jackson have already turned to Paramount for financing, instead, so the show may yet go on.

[Via Heckler Spray and Get The Big Picture]


Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


4 Comments for ‘Tintin’ Movie: A Victim of the Credit Crunch?

Sophie 09.24.08 | 12:25 PM ET

I’d rather they didn’t, anyway. No good can come of it.

Eva 09.25.08 | 12:06 PM ET

Hmm, I’m on the fence. The LOTR and Narnia movies have (to some extent) restored my faith in the books-to-movies process. It IS possible to do it without completely mangling them, it seems…

Sophie 09.25.08 | 2:13 PM ET

Hm, yes. You are right. While I’ve never been a Tolkien person, I was pleasantly surprised by the first Narnia movie. (Haven’t seen the second.)

But then there’s the whole Winnie the Pooh debacle.

I guess I just hate to let anyone replace the voices in my head with their interpretation of what these characters sound like.

Sophie 09.26.08 | 11:28 AM ET

I’m all for Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter though. Just read about that. With Tim Burton. What’s not to like?

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