{"id":426269,"date":"2026-05-13T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:55:08","slug":"peter-jackson-to-make-tintin-movie-15-years-after-collaboration-with-steven-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426269\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson to make \u2018Tintin\u2019 movie 15 years after collaboration with Steven Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

But he hasn\u2019t been wasting any time while at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. Photo \/ Paramount<\/p>\n

In between galas and picking up his prize, \u201cI\u2019ve been working with Fran [Walsh, his partner] on another Tintin script. I\u2019m in the hotel room down the road writing the script and sending pages to New Zealand,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n

While he refused to say which of the Tintin albums he was drawing on, he hinted strongly that it will begin where Spielberg\u2019s film finished, with Red Rackham\u2019s Treasure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the way that it carries on, but it begins exactly where the last film ends,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u2018Old fat rebel\u2019<\/p>\n

Jackson said he makes \u201cfilms that I really want to see myself\u201d, and the Tintin movie will be no different.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we get a draft done, we will send it to Steven [Spielberg] … and he might say that he doesn\u2019t like it, and maybe we should do it with different books. But I don\u2019t think he will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson, who turned J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings trilogy into one of the biggest box office franchises ever, said he loved Tintin, whose adventurous japes in comics like Tintin in Tibet and The Blue Lotus have been a staple of European children\u2019s bookshelves since the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Jackson, who owns Weta FX, one of the world\u2019s most important special effects companies, which has worked on Avatar as well as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, also weighed into the debate on artificial intelligence that has been raging at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\"PeterPeter Jackson receives the Honorary Palme d’Or on stage during the opening ceremony of the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

He said that while he thought AI is \u201cgoing to destroy the world\u201d, when it comes to its use in film, \u201cI don\u2019t dislike it at all\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, to me, it\u2019s just a special effect. It\u2019s no different from other special effects.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he later played down his remarks \u201cabout the robots taking over\u201d, he said he could not see AI going much further than the \u201ccowboyland\u201d of short videos on Instagram and YouTube.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make feature films the rights have all to be authorised and lawyers have to go through things with a toothcomb,\u201d something that would limit AI\u2019s use.<\/p>\n

Jackson, 64, said he still sees himself as the rebel who was kicked out of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes for wearing shorts when he premiered his debut film, Bad Taste in 1987, but was now an \u201cold fat rebel\u201d.<\/p>\n

And he said he still hopes to make a movie inspired by the British Dambusters raid on the Ruhr dams in Germany during World War II if \u201cI live long enough\u201d.<\/p>\n

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