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The rumor mill is working over time on the Tintin movie. Tom Hanks is the latest name linked to the role of Captain Haddock. Tom Hanks is one of the most famous and successful actors in Hollywood and has won two Oscars in an impressive movie career.

The Tintin movie trilogy is to be brought to fruition by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. The fact that Steven Spielberg is central to the project makes Tom Hanks link to play Captain Haddock easier to understand.

Hanks and Spielberg were brought together on two very successful projects one being the acclaimed TV serial Band of Brothers and the other being the film Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan was a successful and critically claimed.

Captain Haddock is very much central to the Tintin series of cartoons. Archibald (the captain’s first name) Haddock was first introduced into the Tintin world in The Crab with the Golden Claws as the Commander of the Karaboudjan.

Captain Haddock is first seen as weak character in the series and also an alcoholic. The longer the Tintin series went on though his character gained in stature and an ultimately volunteers to save the life of Tintin in Tintin in Tibet.

Captain Haddock is a late edition to the Tintin world but is one of his most loved characters. The use of Tom hanks to play him in the movie would be a safe bet as it would guarantee a certain audience who are fans of Hanks. This would help the film sell in America where Tintin isn’t the most well known character. Tintin only preceded Mickey Mouse by a few months and so never really took off in America where they preferred their own plucky mouse to that of some European boy detective.

Spielberg is a life long Tintin fan and hopes to be successful in introducing the boy detective to an American audience. The use of Tom Hanks will help him get there. If you want to learn the latest about the upcoming film then please visit my site Tintin movie news and for Tintin merchandise.

Tintin the Belgium boy detective is going to be put on the big screen and introduced to a wider audience the question to ask is who is Tintin? Tintin is a young Belgian reporter who through heroic action solves mysteries that are presented at the start of each comic book. Tintin was first introduced to the world in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Tintin was first introduced to the world in a Belgium paper in 1929-1930 by his creator George Remi.

Tintin and the Land of the Soviets was a political satire that poked fun at the Soviets claims to having a thriving economy and found an audience due to many people’s unease with the Soviet Empire. Remi himself had distrust for the Soviet Empire.

The Tintin comic series have an almost formulaic feel about it. Most of the books deal with Tintin having to solve a mystery of some kind whilst also having to write a story for his paper.

Tintin and the Black Island is a fine reference point on to understanding how Herge created such a succesful character. In The Black Island Tinitn sees a plane make an emergency landing and goes to try and help. Tintin tries to help the pilot but the pilot attempts to shoot him instead. Tintin then recovers in hospitable where he finds out that a similar plane crashed in a field in Sussex from the detectives Thompson and Thompson.

Tintin as a result decides to unravel the mystery for himself. The adventure thus starts leading Tintin to be accused of assault and theft of a fellow passenger on a train journey and later kidnapped and forced to jump off a cliff (saved by his dog snowy before he is made too). Tintin follows the trail that leads to an Island off Scotland and to tales of a monster who lives on the Island and is said to kill humans. Tintin discovers the Island to be the hideout of forgers and cleverly captures them and holds them till the police arrive.

Tintin is always able to solve the mysteries that are put before him although some are set over two books such as Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. Tintin may solve these mysteries but funnily enough he not often seen handing in a article. Most Tintin books will finish with the reader witnessing our hero recieving a hero’s reception with his pals Snowy and Captain Haddock.

Tintin is a heroic young man but lacks the color of many of the other characters that appear in the comic books. Tintin’s character is a very neutral which allows him to be understood easier by the target audience.

Tintin is going to become even more popular culminating with the first of three Tintin movies being released most likely early 2010. The Tintin movie will be directed by Steven Spielberg andto find out more please visit the website Le Tintin Movie.