Three Hi-Res Images From Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

These three high resolution images from ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ have finally been liberated online after they were featured in Empire Magazine a few months back.  The film has a powerhouse team behind it – direction by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson on producing duties and a script co-written by Steven Moffat, the legend that is Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish. I’m stoked! Look out for this is cinemas December 23th 2011.

“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”

The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.