Tintin in Hollywood

[coalescent]

Yesterday brought the news that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed up to produce/direct a trilogy of Tintin films.

Spielberg and Jackson are said to have selected three adventures from the comic book series, but it is not yet known which ones they are.

The question, of course, is which three it should be. Hence:

[Poll #985701]

The reasons for my own votes are, of course, obvious: The Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure has PIRATES, Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon has THA MOON, and Tintin in Tibet is just all around great.

(I hope this extended poll works. I consulted ninebelow in matters of poll mojo, so if it doesn't work, blame him.)

EDIT (a) it worked! and (b) comment-spam of the day.

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

You've been watching too much Doctor Who.

Actually, looking at that list, there appear to be more Tintin books than I thought that I've never read. I can't for the life of me remember The Black Island or Tintin in America, for instance. I wonder if there's a collected Tintin boxed set of some kind ...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I have always liked giant mutant crabs.

I have never read any Tintin, so I was just voting off what sounded like it might have exciting things in, like pirates and THA MOON and crabs.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

The Shooting Star has exploding mushrooms from outer space, and Flight 714 has aliens. Tintin in Tibet has the abominable snowman.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Aliens? Blimey, I don't remember that.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yep. Perfectly normal kidnapping plot involving diverting a private jet onto a remote island, and then in the last 10 pgaes aliens turn up and mindwipe them all. It's very strange.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Strange? No. AWESOME! (they also had more automatic weapons)

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Hang on, hang on, no. There are no aliens seen in Flight 714. There is the implication of aliens, but it's possible to read it as being a hoax - a way of covering up some entirely human nefarity.

Well, except for one detail. I can't remember what it is, but i remember there being one thing that doesn't sit with the naturalistic reading.

-- tom

[bibliolicious.livejournal.com]

Tintin in Tibet has the abominable snowman.

This sounds familiar. I think I may have read it.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with the oeuvre of Guy N Smith, including Killer Crabs, Night of the Crabs, Origin of the Crabs, Crabs on the Rampage, and Crabs' Moon?

[ajr.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to forget, personally.

[storme]

We have The Black Island. Snowy talks (and gets drunk), and Tintin wears a kilt. It's the only Tintin book I can remember encountering in English as a child, which may explain why I lack these fond memories of it that everyone else seems to have.

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Yes, I vaguely remember that one. Not one of the best :p

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Definitely not ringing any bells, I'm afraid.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Giant ape, desolate island. I owned this one.

[ex-susumu64.livejournal.com]

Tintin in America is mainly brilliant for the way the pattern on his plaid shirt remains perfectly square to the page no matter what angle his body is. It's one of the early ones, pre-Haddock and I think the Black Island is as well.

[thalassius.livejournal.com]

I've seen and read those, but I never came across the first two in English - did you?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No, I read them in French. Although now I come to think of it, that may just be Tintin in the Congo ...

[thalassius.livejournal.com]

I've seen Congo in French bookshops, but never got round to reading it. I've never seen Land of the Soviets though I know it's rather anti-Soviet, which may be why it didn't get translated. Reading plot synopses online, I can see why deluded 1930s intellectuals (probably including a fair number of publishers) wouldn't have liked it.

[applez.livejournal.com]

I read most of Tintin in French. Congo is pretty visually racist, and disgustingly paternalist-imperialist at best - not suitable film material for our modern times.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Tintin Au Congo, Monsieur. ;-)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

20 Tintin books for $225.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Tintin au Amerique has him tracking a wanted man across the desert. Tintin has his boots stolen by the wanted man, so is forced to walk on in the wanted man's boots ... which leads the enforcers to falsely charge Tintin as the wanted man. That, and a big feather headdressed Chief live largest in my mind from that story.