Tuesday, May 15, 2007




PER SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

French: Les Aventures de Tintin: The New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson has teamed with the Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg to make three Tintin movies, with cutting-edge visual effects to be created by Wellington's Weta Digital.

Tintin is a young Belgian reporter who becomes involved in dangerous cases in which he takes heroic action to save the day.

The Adventures of Tintin: series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist HergĂ©, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.

BLISTERING barnacles! I can’t wait….my brothers and I – we were growing up…we loved reading the comics of Tintin.