{"id":1560,"date":"2007-12-17T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2007-12-17T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:54:25","slug":"on-andy-serkis-and-tintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"On Andy Serkis and Tintin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/12\/17\/serkis_tintin\/\">Andy Serkis will be reteaming with <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> director Peter Jackson for the upcoming <i>Tintin<\/i> trilogy to be directed by Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and a director to be named later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not, honestly, familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Adventures_of_Tintin\"><i>Tintin<\/i><\/a>.  I do know, though, that these are some of the best-selling comic books worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Moffat, writer of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> episodes like &#8220;The Girl in the Fireplace,&#8221; &#8220;Blink,&#8221; and &#8220;Time-Crash,&#8221; will be penning the screenplays for the <i>Tintin<\/i> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a motion-capture animation, much like <i>Beowulf<\/i> or <i>The Polar Express<\/i>.  Andy Serkis, of course, is well familiar with motion-capture, his performance in <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> having been done through motion-capture.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I don&#8217;t know <i>Tintin<\/i>, but with the creators lined up on this project I&#8217;m going to <i>have<\/i> to see it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Serkis will be reteaming with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson for the upcoming Tintin trilogy to be directed by Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and a director to be named later. I am not, honestly, familiar with Tintin. I do know, though, that these are some of the best-selling comic books worldwide. Steven Moffat,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1560\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Andy Serkis and Tintin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[505,133],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-andy-serkis","tag-peter-jackson","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}