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MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures
Entertainment's latest venture The Adventures
of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is
being directed by Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg.
The
film stars Jamie Bell Billy Elliot
as Tintin, while Daniel Craig (Quantum
of Solace) plays the nefarious Red Rackham.
The
starcast also includes Andy Serkis, Simon
Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones
and Mackenzie Crook. Nick Rodwell, Stephane
Sperry and Ken Kamins are the executive
producers.
The
Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,
from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar
Wright and Joe Cornish, is the first in the
series of 3D motion capture films based on
the iconic character created by Georges Remi,
better known to the world by his pen name
"Herge". The film is due for release
in 2011.
While
Paramount Pictures will release the film
in the US and in all English speaking territories
including Asia (except India), Sony Pictures
will distribute the film in Continental
Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India
and the remainder of the world.
The
second feature in the series is scheduled
to be directed by Peter Jackson, with a
potential for a third film as well.
Spielberg
and Jackson will bring Herge's stories to
life employing state-of-the-art performance
capture technology developed by Jackson's
Weta Digital.
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