Tintin, who turns 90, will soon be entitled to a second film at the initiative of the duo Peter Jackson-Steven Spielberg but also perhaps a new album, said Thursday the editorial director of Casterman editions. An "option" was signed at the end of the year for a second installment of Tintin's adventures in cinema, entrusted as the first (L e secret of the unicorn , 2011) to Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg, clarified on franceinfo Benoît Mouchart , editorial director at Casterman. The two men should this time exchange their roles: Jackson, producer of the first, would realize the second.
A mixture of Ottokar's Scepter and the Sunflower Affair ? "There are several tracks, it could be a mix of Ottokar's Scepter and the Sunflower Affair," Benoît Mouchart said. "When there is a trilogy in Hollywood, the second is a little darker, so the hypothesis of a Syldave episode is likely."
In an interview with the American Polygon site at the end of 2018, Peter Jackson explained that after focusing on a suitable scenario of the Temple of the Sun, he finally kept the freedom to choose from the "variety" of stories of the little reporter, who celebrates its 90 years of existence.
An unpublished book coming soon? On the books side, an unpublished long awaited and already mentioned in the past could finally arrive in bookstores. "I would really like to publish this year, I do not despair to do it, a novel, T intin and Thermo-Zero ", launched Benoît Mouchart. "It's really an interesting testimony, much more complete than the Alph'art.The story is over, the drawing is not completely inked."
Hergé started working on this legendary album for "tintinophiles" in the late 1950s, after his "Tintin in Tibet". He will not go further than the sketching of the first eight boards. The first plate of Tintin in the land of the Soviets was published on January 10, 1929 in the Belgian Catholic newspaper "Le Petit Vingtième".