May 29 2009See You Guys at 'Tintin' Around Christmas 2011
Something for your kitten calendar: Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be released internationally in late October/early November 2011 before arriving in US theaters December 23. Try to mark it down, but in case you forget, I'll try to remind you sometime that calendar year.
On a somewhat related note, I finally started reading the Tintin comics, and they are nuts. Every page introduces a new conflict that is serendipitously resolved by the next page. For example: "Ut oh, Tintin has been tied to a massive dumbbell and thrown into Lake Michigan! Oh, phew, it turns out they accidentally tied him to a circus strongman's fake, wooden dumbbells that float. Tintin is safe!" Something like that happens every page. It's madness. Who knew the series would be so amazingly ridiculous, besides the millions worldwide who read it decades ago?
Reader Comments
1. first haha - May 29, 2009 3:35 PM
hahahaahah first loooooooool
2. Emode - May 29, 2009 4:12 PM
Titin is great as a comic book as well as a cartoon but you're right it's madness.
3. Fiona - May 29, 2009 4:23 PM
Also, he's some kind of teenage reporter with no parents, who never actually reports on anything. And an alcoholic dog. Blistering barnacles!
4. blasphemy! - May 29, 2009 5:48 PM
this is f*cking retarded, THERE ARE NO F*CKING UNICORNS IN THE TINTIN COMICS
5. Fiona - May 29, 2009 8:01 PM
#4, are you joking? There is a sunken pirate Unicorn in the Tintin comics.
6. Mr. Eric Lee - May 29, 2009 10:07 PM
internet numbnutz fangirls, i kick off my comment slippers only once in a blue moon: fiona is right, it's a treasure hunt story about finding a sunken ship; and poor, sweet master of iwatchstuff, you have obviously only read Tintin in America which was written in the 30s, Herge kept writing for another 30 years - i suggest you try Tintin and the Picaros. But not Flight 714 (it's rubbish).
7. Windier E. Megatons - May 30, 2009 2:47 AM
Yeah, Tintin in America, from which that scene is taken, was one of the earliest Tintin adventures. When it was written the comic was still heavily serialized in a Belgian newspaper, and so you had a lot of that - a cliffhanger on every other page, to keep the readers hooked. If you look at the second half of the Tintin oeuvre - much of it written when the character had his own dedicated magazine - it's much more polished and less slapdash. Tintin certainly still squeezes out of his share of tight spots - making it back from the moon with dwindling oxygen supplies being perhaps the pinnacle of them - but the scenarios are never as ludicrous again as in the first handful of books, written when Herge was still finding his footing as an artist and writer.
8. Rhialto - May 30, 2009 4:47 PM
Why is the release that late? One of my favourite comics when i was a kid.A friend of my had dozens of Tintins.Tintin is a bit a silly adventurer who travels all around the world.
9. Mark - May 31, 2009 4:06 AM
No, you're right; I've only read "Tintin in America" thus far. Though I just got the box set thing that includes everything but the most racist one, so I'll be getting into more soon enough. Sorry if it seemed I was judging the entire series so quickly, but nothing negative was intended. I was just blown away it started at such an absurd speed, and now I'm sort of disappointed to know it calms to a reasonable pace.
10. Galtacticus - May 31, 2009 3:30 PM
It's unusual but the movie will be released in Europe first and in 3D!
11. Galtacticus - May 31, 2009 3:35 PM
The release in europe is expected to be around the end of october/beginning of november.
12. Switcher - May 31, 2009 6:17 PM
It will obviously be released in Europe before the US because "franco-belgian comics" books are somewhat more popular here - no conspiracy, just facts.
And this is surely not the first it happens, yessir. In a time where more than 50% of Hollywood big bucks are made in foreign countries, there is some logic, after all, in Hollywood majors decisions.
13. your hoiness - June 1, 2009 10:48 PM
show urself superficial, for the first time EVER do you know what the funk your talking about?