The Adventure of Tintin, The Movie

Hooray……

After long awaited, the Adventures of Tintin will be filmed started this year. Tintin, the intrepid reporter comic-book character created by Hergé in 1929 will begin shooting the 1st Tintin Movie, The Secret of the Unicorn, in September 2008. According to the Daily Mail (not the most reliable newspaper on the world), Thomas Sangster, a teenage who will celebrate his 18th years old this May, will be cast as Tintin. He was seen on the movie “Love Actually” and “Nanny McPhee”. The film will be direct by two great Director Steven Spielberg and the Director of the trilogy “Lord of the Ring”, Peter Jakson. And it seems Tintin the Movie will become a trilogy of The Secret of the Unicorn, Red Rackhams Treasures and Crab with the Golden Claws.

As the huge fans of Tintin, this is great news and hopefully by 2009 we can start watching this film in Indonesia. So far I had collected the entire original cartoon VCD of the adventures of Tintin and now I am starting to collect the English and French version of his Adventure. The Adventures of Tintin classified by publication date are as follows:

1. Tintin in the Land of the Soviet, 1st published in 1930.
2. Tintin in the Congo, 1st published in 1931.
3. Tintin in America, 1st published in 1932.
4. Cigars of the Pharaoh, 1st published in 1934.
5. The Blue Lotus, 1st published in 1936.
6. Tintin and the Broken Ear, 1st published in 1937.
7. The Black Island, 1st published in 1938.
8. King Ottokar’s Sceptre, 1st published in 1942.
9. The Crab with the Golden Claws, 1st published in 1942.
10. The Shooting Star, 1st published in 1942.
11. The Secret of the Unicorn, 1st published in 1943.
12. Red Rackham’s Treasure, 1st published in 1944.
13. The Seven Crystals Balls, 1st published in 1948.
14. Prisoners of the Sun, 1st published in 1949.
15. Land of Black Gold, 1st published in 1951.
16. Destination Moon, 1st published in 1953.
17. Explorers on the Moon, 1st published in 1954.
18. The Calculus Affair, 1st published in 1956.
19. The Red Sea Sharks, 1st published in 1958.
20. Tintin in Tibet, 1st published in 1960.
21. The Castafiore Emerald, 1st published in 1963
22. Flight 714, 1st published in 1968.
23. Tintin and the Picaros, 1st published in 1976.
24. Tintin and the Alphart, 1st published in 1986

Most of the title is already translated into Indonesian of which become my first comic books to read when I was a teenager. His story is very inspiring since he is just a reporter, who has a smell or intuition when there is something is not right. When I was a boy, I had a toy that looks like Snowy his dogs and the toys I kept until I am a teenager. I have a huge expectation about the movie and hopefully Steven and Peter can create the great movie about Tintin.

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