Yes what you’ve heard is true, it’s really finally here! The teaser trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is up online. The studios have managed to keep the production mostly under wraps since it was shot all the way back in January/ February 2009, and apart from a few still photos released last Autumn, all us Tintin fans have been kept firmly in the dark, until now!
The trailer contains a mix of scenes and characters both familiar to readers of the books (the plane crashing into the desert, Thomson and Thompson etc…) and new scenes devised for film. What we all really want to know though is, is it faithful to Herge’s work, and does it bring that feeling of excitement that reading the books for the first time did? Well, for me the answer to both of the above is a firm… um, yes! From the first glimpse of Tintin’s feet coming out of his front door and his faithful dog Snowy playfully running around his ankles, I was hooked. Already we can see the attention to detail that Herge valued, just have a look at the shot of Tintin looking at at a model of the Unicorn through the glass case, or the beautifully lit scenes of the car speeding away from Tintin through the street at night, it looks awesome.
For negativity’s sake, the music is a little unimpressive but it’s still just a teaser, I’m sure in the next trailer we will hear more of John William’s full score. I’ve also never really liked how faces come out when motion capture is used, and the last close up shot of Tintin reinforced those fears a little, but even so, this teaser trailer has got me very excited.
Will Pond.
Check out the trailer below and two teaser posters also released today, which kind of make Tintin look like a techno super spy…
