The adventures of tintin wiki series#

The film was released in the United Kingdom and other European countries on 26 October 2011 and in the United States on 21 December 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D formats.

The world premiГЁre took place on 22 October 2011 in Brussels. The delay resulted in Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who had been originally cast as Tintin, departing from the project and being replaced by Bell. Filming was due to begin in October 2008 for a 2010 release, but the release was delayed to 2011 after Universal Pictures opted out of producing the film with Paramount Pictures, who provided $30 million in pre-production Sony Pictures replaced Universal as co-financer. Spielberg and HergГ© were admirers of each other's work the director acquired the film rights to The Adventures of Tintin following the author's death in 1983, and re-optioned them in 2002.

The adventures of tintin wiki series#

Inspired by three volumes of the Tintin series - The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944) - its plot follows the reporter Tintin (Bell), his dog, Snowy, and their accomplice Captain Haddock (Serkis) as they search for the treasure of the Unicorn, a ship captained by Haddock's ancestor Sir Francis Haddock they are pursued by Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Craig), the descendant of Sir Haddock's nemesis Red Rackham.

The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-produced by Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, and stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who portray their characters through voice acting and motion capture. The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) is a 2011 American-New Zealand 3D computer-animated action- adventure film based on Belgian cartoonist HergГ©'s comic book series of the same name.