Jim at MarketSaw has found a small interview with Andy Serkis that ran in IndieLondon where he spills / confirms a few significant details about the first couple Tintin movies.
I’ll just quote the same bits Jim did, since Serkis is as concise as can be:
Q. Are you going to be reuniting with Peter Jackson again for Tintin?
Andy Serkis: In fact tomorrow I’m flying out to start on Tintin. Steven Spielberg is directing the first one, and then Peter Jackson is doing the second. The bulk of the shoot starts in September but things got a little bit moved around after the writers’ strike.
Q. Were you at all worried when Peter first got back in touch that having played Gollum and King Kong, he might ask you to play Snowy the dog?
Andy Serkis: [laughs] Absolutely, in fact people assume that I am, which is even more disturbing [he’s playing Captain Haddock].
There we go: Spielberg first, Jackson second, Haddock obliquely confirmed. Very obliquely on that last point, since nowhere in the interview does Serkis actually identify his character.
The detail that’s missing: a name for the director’s credit on the third film. The guessing games have been fun so far — the best/most ridiculous name for the third flick to appear in the comments below gets a No-Prize.
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Guy Ritchie
Ruggero Deodato
I would like to see Robert Zemeckis on the third flick. Or maybe Woody Allen
Is Uwe Boll too obvious?
Mc G.
Danny Boyle. Mothfucker can hop genres better than anyone, and he does it with low budgets. either that or Luc Besson, but his output of late has been about as strong as the French military
Paul Verhoeven.
Color me ignorant, but WTF is tintin?
Spike Lee
Zombie Kubrick.
Bela Tarr
The Coen Brothers
Takashi Miike.
Ray Dennis Steckler
George Kuchar
Lucas.
if the third film is tintin in the congo they should ask Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi to do it.
Frank Miller's Tin-Tin City.
Dario Argento
Paul Bartel
Seymore Butts
Joe Johnston!
Roman Polanski
Pippen AKA the hobbit that didn't go on to do anything… they just feel bad.
Jon Turteltaub. Done! Lock the thread!
Lloyd Kaufman
Werner Herzog!
Kevin Costner… for the academy award winning director hat-trick.
John Houston
Jane Campion!
i think by the third film, we're going to need a flashier tin-tin…
therefore, i nominate the brothers W
Ruggero Deodato
Vincent Gallo
Hmmm…Best suggestion? I'll go with Zemekis, if Spielberg and Jackson opt out of co-directing the third. Worst suggestion? David Cronenberg. Let's get some full-on body horror going for Snowy and ol' Tin-Tin. Or a protracted nude fight sequence.
EDWARD BURNS!!!
The Wayans!
Luc Besson
It's clearly a job for Michael Mann.
Scorsese, reuniting with Deniro as tin-tin.
Alan Smithee
Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I win this one.
Shawn Levy
Edward Norton. Since he apparently wrote, directed, edited and starred in the new Incredible Hulk movie. In fact, I hear he ran craft services too, in his spare time!
Mel Gibson, flaying flesh and all
Hal Needham.
John Milius
John Carpenter, complete with an epic back-alley brawl between Tintin and Keith David.
Joe Dante. Or… Renny Harlin. He'll do Tintin harder than he did Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Which is to say he'll do it really, really hard.
Paul Sorvino
Famous Mortimer
Estelle Getty
I vote for Gore Verbinski. Makes sense if you think about it. He's proven he can handle massive, CGI-heavy projects. Just so long as he closes out the trilogy stronger than he closed out Pirates. Alfonso Cuaron would be an awesome choice too.
Larry Clark
Hmmmm, get me Steven Spielbergs non-union Mexican equivalent… Senior Speilbergo
Ingmar Bergman
There's only one man who can out-awesome The Beard and The Kiwi. No, not Tim Story. No, not David Lynch. Good guesses though. One more… ah, you got it. Michael Bay.
Brad Bird.
Me.
you
Tintin is some racist bullshit!
…William Castle's ghost…
Lars Von Trier in Dogme fashion
Peven Jaspielsonberg
Madonna
Ryuhei Kitamura
Neil Jordan. There are trannies and terrorist groups in the third story, right?
Drew Struzan
Sam Raimi
Michael Cimino
Larry Wachowski's prodigal dick.
Albert Pyun. And he will recast Tintin with Jean-Claude Van Damme and have him do his (in)famous helicopter kick!
George Miller. C'mon, you know that Justice League is never happening.
Don Swayze
Patrick Swayze
Ron Bonk
michael winterbottom, or GDT
Michael Haneke, Miike Takashi, Crispin Glover, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Stanley Donen, Mel Brooks, James Bond III or the disgruntled ghost of Theo Van Gogh. Any of those would be awesome…
Oh, Devin. What have you done?
Duke Fleed
then i say a director!
David Lynch's Tin Tin!
Erik Van Looy.
Rowdy Herrington.
Joe Carnahan.
Seriously, he could make a cool Tintin movie.
Don Murphy
Sylvester Stallone!
Jean-Pierre Jeunet was already mentioned, so lets say Bryan Singer
BRETT RATNER, KING OF THE THREEQUEL.
Del Toro.
Ed Wood
Jesus Franco.
'Nuff said.
Maya Deren.
Guillermo Del Toro
A no prize? Who are you? Stan Lee/Larry Hama?
Sidney Lumet! Thanks for the no-prize.
Troy Duffy but he has to get final cut.
"Troy Duffy but he has to get final cut."
haha good one
Well, sorry to spoil the secret but it will be Al Gore that directs it.
Frank Oz with a cameo by Miss Piggy
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