Dreamworks to make film about Tintin

The head of the Tintin studio today announced Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks company had committed to produce at least one movie on the famed Belgian cartoon character.

Herge Studios head Nick Rodwell said the Hollywood company had lifted the option to go into preproduction of a movie, which should normally hit the screen in about two years time.

It was unclear at this stage which of Tintin’s adventures would be picked for a first scenario, he said.

“If movie number one works, we will continue,” he said.

Talks about a Hollywood movie on the intrepid reporter who saves the lives of countless good people and makes sure criminals end up behind bars has been talked about for a quarter century.

The first plan surfaced just before Tintin’s creator, Georges Remi, aka Herge, died in 1983.