The passage of time is a scary thing, especially for a director with plenty of ideas in his head. That goes double for someone like Peter Jackson, the visionary behind so many epic big-screen adventures. Though he’s produced plenty in the past decade, Jackson hasn’t really been behind the camera in 11 years, since completing The Hobbit trilogy in 2014. That’s a shame, as he had plenty in the pipeline around that time — the most exciting being a sequel to 2011’s The Adventures of Tintin; which, back then, was written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish. But this time, Jackson is taking a crack at it.
Speaking at a Cannes Rendezvous session this week, Jackson looked back on the original plan for the Tintin films. He’d partnered with Steven Spielberg, who held the rights to the French adventure comics, to co-produce what would have been a trilogy. “The deal was that Steven directs one and I direct another,” Jackson revealed. Spielberg held up his end of the bargain — but “for 15 years, I haven’t made mine,” the filmmaker continued. “I feel very awkward about that.”
