New 'The Adventures of Tintin' TV Spot Drops Some Names

Friday, 11 November 2011 10:47 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier

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New 'The Adventures of Tintin' TV Spot Drops Some Names

So The Adventures of Tintin, the first motion capture film from director Steven Spielberg, played at AFI Fest last night to ecstatic reviews and is already popular in all the numerous international territories where it has been playing for weeks. That makes it even more difficult to wait for the film's Christmas release Stateside, where moviegoers just aren't as familiar with the titular boy-reporter created by cartoonist Herge. In order to convey exactly the tone of Tintin to American audiences, a new domestic TV spot goes out of its way to drop a critical quote that calls it, "The perfect combination of Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones," two properties that promise swashbuckling good times.

While this need to align The Adventures of Tintin does make sense and should work on the average moviegoer, a lot of enthusiasts were on board a long time ago, when they heard that Steven Spielberg is directing, Peter Jackson is producing, and Edgar Wright contributed to the screenplay, along with fellow British creators of coolness Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish.

Everybody knows Spielberg and Jackson, but Moffat has done great work on Doctor Who and Sherlock, Cornish wrote and directed Attack the Block, and Wright is director and co-writer of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Wright's frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play supporting roles in The Adventures of Tintin, with Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis acting as leads Tintin and Captain Haddock. Also in the motion capture cast are Daniel Craig, Toby Jones, Cary Elwes, Mackenzie Crook, and Kim Stengel.