Secret Of | First Look: Steven Spielbergs The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

November 3, 2010 – 2:30 am

Empire Magazine teased a first look at The Adventures of Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn all weekend. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg with Peter Jackson overseeing WETA’s CGI mocap animation over the live-action footage, hasn’t been seen in CGI form, until now. That’s a look at Tintin , played by Jamie Bell, above. Hit the break for some more info and a couple more shots, including one of Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.

As we thought , the key image from Empire is indeed a version of a classic image of Tintin running while being hit with a spotlight. Check the magazine cover in full below. And the first still image there is Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, with a third image of him and Tintin stranded asea.

Peter Jackson says of the idea of using mocap,

With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin … You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Herg drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Herg’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Herg’s artwork,

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