Despite rumors that Peter Jackson would be stepping into Steven Spielberg's director's chair for the film adaptation of the comic strip Tintin, it's been reaffirmed that Spielberg will indeed be helming the first chapter in a planned motion-capture-animated trilogy, while Jackson is on board to direct the second. It will be scripted by Stephen Moffat, a Dr. Who writer, and will be built on two Tintin books - "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure."
Who is Tintin, those of us not comically inclined might ask? You can read plenty at Wikipedia, but the short answer is that he's a young Belgian reporter solving cases set in a variety of genres, with slapstick as well as satirical sophistication. He has a dog named Snowy, too, and Andy Serkis will be playing his friend Captain Haddock.
