Peter Jackson Plans To Shoot MoCap Footage For ‘Tintin 2’ Next Year
Peter Jackson’s latest film is just about to hit theaters, but with the expansion ofThe Hobbitadaptation into a trilogy, he’ll still be a busy guy for the next couple years. While the next two films are shot (mostly — there will probably be some additional shooting at some point) loads of post-production work remains to be done on the second and third Hobbit chapters.
So where’s he going to get the time to make another film?
During a press stop forThe Hobbit, Jackson said he would shoot the base mocap footage for the secondTintinfilm sometime next year.
Bleeding Coolpoints toRYTBF, which reports that Belgian media asked Jackson about his chapter of theTintinseries. It’s a film we’ve heard little about; since Spielberg’s film came out a year ago, Jackson has been very busy onThe Hobbit. He hasn’t been pestered with questions about Tintin, and has spoken rarely about it.
But Jackson said the plan is to put actors in mocap suits on a stage next year, to shoot the basic material that WETA will then translate into animation for a 2015 release. If you’ll recall, Spielberg directed the live mocap work for the first Tintin film in a relatively short amount of time. It’s the post-production work that takes loads of time. So he can shoot the mocap material fairly quickly, and then let WETA get to work with the post while he finishesThe Hobbit. This means we might get films from Jackson once a year for the next few years.
As for more specifics of the sequel, we know thatAnthony Horowitzwas hired to script, and that the film could incorporate elements of Herge’s Tintin volumesPrisoners of the Sunand/orThe Calculus Affair. Unless things change, it’s safe to assume that Jackson’s Tintin film will be rendered in HFR, too.
