Spielberg's Tintin

[babycyclops]

Tintin has a lot of fans in Australia too. Pretty much every school and public library used to have Herge's books on their shelves. For me, Tintin was always more interesting than Astreix.

[samurainoir]

Tintin has a lot of fans in Australia too. Pretty much every school and public library used to have Herge's books on their shelves. For me, Tintin was always more interesting than Astreix.

I dig Asterix on a different level than Tintin, but the influence of both is astronomical in the world of European BD. You can see how the recent Asterix films would have difficulty finding a North American theatrical audience outside of Quebec.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I think Tintin is popular pretty much everywhere on earth EXCEPT the US. (Maybe if he wore tights?) So it's not too weird for Spielberg to go for something like this: international sales are huge for US movies, so he's sort of pre-emptively striking.

And the comics have been pretty widely available here for the last 5 years or so.

Don C.

[Meule]

Oh man, I wanted a film version of Belgian's true superhero...Manneken Pis...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bAIZPjDtT_Q/S8TNdSzl70I/AAAAAAAAFKw/GxeUf3oWpZI/s1600/617px-Manneken_Pis_%2528crop%2529.jpg

[MIB41]

My first thought when I saw the title was "So Spielberg is doing dog films now?"