Tintin places the scroll in his wallet, but is then pick-pocketed by Silk the next morning and soon afterwards abducted by accomplices of Sakharine on the SS Karaboudjan. However, they are interrupted by the arrival of Barnaby, an undercover FBI agent who had tried to buy the model from Tintin, who is then shot by assassins while attempting to recover the Unicorn. Tintin finds a parchment scroll inside the tube.
Tintin returns to his apartment, which has been ransacked, and is shown the metal tube by Snowy. He heads to Marlinspike Hall with Snowy, where he accuses Sakharine of the theft, but noticing Sakharine's model is not broken, he realizes there are two Unicorn models. Meanwhile, bumbling police detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of pickpocket Aristides Silk, whom Snowy had seen in the market.Īfter visiting a library to uncover the history surrounding the Unicorn, Tintin returns to find the Unicorn has been stolen, and suspects Sakharine of stealing it. After Tintin takes the model home to his apartment, it is accidentally broken during a chase between Snowy and a stray cat a metal tube slips out of the ship's mast and rolls under Tintin's furniture. While browsing in an outdoor market with his pet dog Snowy, Tintin, a young journalist, purchases a miniature model of a ship known as the Unicorn, but is accosted by two men, who both separately unsuccessfully attempt to acquire the model from Tintin. See also: The Secret of the Unicorn § Synopsis A sequel directed by Jackson was announced in the wake of the film's release, but has since stalled in development hell. Composer John Williams was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score and the film was nominated for six Saturn Awards, including Best Animated Film, Best Director for Spielberg and Best Music for Williams.
It was the first motion-captured animated film (as well as the first non- Pixar animated film) to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It was a commercial success, grossing over $374 million against a budget of $135 million, making it Paramount's highest-grossing animated feature, and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the stylized use of motion capture (particularly the faithful look to Hergé's works), visual effects, action scenes, performances and music, to which they compared one of Spielberg's previous works, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film was released in the United Kingdom and other European countries on 26 October 2011 and in the United States on 21 December in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D formats. The world première took place on 22 October 2011 in Brussels. The delay resulted in Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who had been originally cast as Tintin, departing from the project and being replaced by Bell. Filming was due to begin in October 2008 for a 2010 release, but the release was delayed to 2011 after Universal Pictures opted out of producing the film with Paramount Pictures, who provided $30 million in pre-production Sony Pictures replaced Universal as co-financer. Spielberg and Hergé were admirers of each other's work the director acquired the film rights to The Adventures of Tintin following the author's death in 1983, and re-optioned them in 2002.
#THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN INTRO SERIES#
Inspired by three volumes of the Tintin series - The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944) - its plot follows the reporter Tintin (Bell), his dog, Snowy, and their accomplice Captain Haddock (Serkis) as they search for the treasure of the Unicorn, a ship captained by Haddock's ancestor Sir Francis Haddock they are pursued by Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Craig), the descendant of Sir Haddock's nemesis Red Rackham. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-produced by Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, and stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who portray their characters through voice acting and motion capture. The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) is a 2011 computer-animated action/ adventure film based on Belgian cartoonist Hergé's comic book series of the same name.
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