Universal Pictures has recoiled at the cost of the 3-D animated movie adaptation of the adventures of Tintin by two of Hollywood's top directors, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
The two legendary directors submitted to Universal a 130 million dollar budget to produce a trilogy of films based on the beloved Belgian comic-strip boy reporter.
Now, look. Spielberg's had his ups and downs with me, but if ever there was a picture he was born to make...and anyway: My feelings about some of them aside, since 2001 he's produced and/or directed more than a dozen movies with a combined gross of $1806.3 million.
And he's the winner of multiple Oscars, as is Peter Jackson, whose box office total (for the same period) is "only" $1249.3 million. And that's with Jackson directing and/or producing a third as many films.
(Figures via Rotten Tomatoes)
You know the economy is really in trouble when a movie studio won't back a film project based on one of the most succesful comic book series in the world; with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson attached.
Yet that is what has happened.
Thank you, John McCain, thank you so very much...
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