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[RicePlateReddy]

Spielberg to tackle adventures of Tintin

Tintin, the heroic young journalist and adventurer created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, is set to take to the silver screen again — this time with the help of Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg and his company DreamWorks have committed to produce at least one Tintin movie and are gearing up for pre-production on the film, Nick Rodwell, head of Hergé's Moulinsart Studios, which holds the rights to Tintin, said Thursday.

"If movie No. 1 works, we will continue," Rodwell said, adding that it is still unclear which of Tintin's adventures — depicted in 24 books — will be filmed.

A completed movie could show up in theatres by 2009 or 2010, Rodwell told a press conference.

Since his debut in 1929, Tintin has enthralled comic readers with his ongoing adventures. In 2004, fans around the world celebrated his 75th birthday.

In addition to the comic book stories and the Tintin magazine, which was published from 1946 until the early 1990s, the beloved character was brought to life in radio dramas, a handful of animated and live action films, two television series, several stage shows and some video games.

Discussion about creating a new Tintin film has swirled for close to 25 years. A plan for a live action adventure was shelved after the death of creator Georges Remi, who was better known by his pen name Hergé, in March 1983.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/03/08/tintin-movie-spielberg.html

[fineleg]

Billions of blue blistering barnacles! It is a very tough job to keep the fidelity of the comics. But I would like to watch this for sure.

[fineleg]

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE!

Captain Haddock's Curses (Exclamations used by Captain Haddock)
TRIVIA
Bashi bazouk - this term was originally applied in Turkey to non-uniformed soldiers. It literally means a savage and brutal ruffian, and was popularized by Captain Haddock.
Contributions are welcome; please remember to provide a reference for verification.
Last modified: 29 October 2006.

Total count: 192

A
Aardvark! Abecedarians! Aborigine! Addle-pated lumps of anthracite! (old) Alcoholic ! Anachronisms! Anacoluthons! Antediluvian bulldozer [Tibet p60 B2]! Anthracite! Anthropithecus! Anthropophagus! Arabian Nightmare! Artichokes! Autocrats! Aztecs! [15]

B
Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Beast! Belemnite! Big-head [Tibet p35 B3]! Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Black beetles! Black Marketers! Blackamoor! Blackbird! Blackguards! Blistering Barnacles! Blistereing blundering birdbrain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Blunderbuss! Bodysnatcher! Bootlegger! Borgia! Bougainvillea! Brat! Breathalyser! Bri*s! Brutes! Bucaneers! Bully! Butcher! [34]

C
Cachinnating cockatoo! Cannibals! Carpetsellers! Caterpillars! Centipede! Cercopithecus! Coelcanth! Colocynths! Corsair! Cowards! Crabapples! Cro-Magnon! Crooks! Cushion footed quadrupeds! Cyclotron! [15]

D
Diplodocus! Dogs! Doryphore! Doryphores! Duck-billed platypus! Dunderheaded coconuts! Dynamiter! [7]

E
Ectoplasms! Egoists! [2]

F
Fancy-dress Facist! Fancy-dress Fatima! Fatfaces! Filibuster(s) ! Fourlegged Cyrano! Freshwater swabs! Fuzzy wuzzy! [7]

G
Gallows-fodder! Gang of Theives! Gangsters! Gibbering anthropoids! Great flat-footed grizzly bear! Gobbledgook! Gogglers! Goosecaps! Guano-gatherer! Gyroscope! [10]

H
Harlequin! Heretic! Highwayman! Hydrocarbon! [4]

I
Iconoclasts! Idiots! [2]

J
Jellied eel! Jellyfish! [2]

K
Kleptomaniacs! [1]

L
Lily-livered landlubbers! Loathsome brute! Logarithim! Lubberscum! [4]

M
Macrocephalic baboon! Megacycle [Tibet p60 B3]! Mameluke! Miserable blundering barbecued blister! Miserable earth worms! Miserable miser! Miserable molecule of mildew! Misguided missles! Mister Mule! Monopolizers! Monster! Morons! Moujiks! Mountebanks! Musical morons! [15]

N
Nanny Goat! Nitwits! Nitwitted ninepins! Nyctalops! [4]

O
Odd-toed ungulate! Ophicleides! Orangoutang! Ostrogoth! [4]

P
Pachyrhizus! Parasites! Patagonians! Pestilential Pachyderm! Phylloxera! Pickled herrings! Pirates! Pithecanthropic montebanks! Pithecanthropic pickpocket [Tibet p37 A3]! Pithecanthropuses! Pockmarks! Politican! Poltroons! Polygraphs! Polynesian! Profiteers! Psychopath! Purple profiteering jellyfish! Pyrographers! Pyromaniac! [20]

R
Raggle taggle ruminants! Rapscallion! Rats! Rhizopods! RKRPXZKRMTFRZ! Roadhogs! [6]

S
Saucy tramp! Savages! Scorpion! Sea-gherkin(s)! Sea-lice! Shipwreckers! Slavertrader! Slubberdegullions! Sparrows! Spitfire! Steamroller! Stoolpigeon! Subtropical sea-louse! Swine! [14]

Note: Squawking popinjay - in The Secret of the Unicorn, on page 24, Captain Francis Haddock says it to Red Rackham--but since Captain Archibald Haddock is narrating this to Tintin, some one may say that it is one of his many curse words. Also, a parrot says it in Red Rackham's Treasure on page 29. [NAB]

T
Technocrat! Ten thousand thundering typhoons! Terrapins! Terrorists! Thundering typhoons! Tin hatted tyrants! Toads! Toffee-noses! Traitors! Tramps! Troglodytes! Turncoats! Twister! Two-timing Troglodytes! [14]

U
Ungulate (see O for odd-toed ungulate)

V
Vandal! Vegetarian! Vermicellis! Viper! Visigoths! Vulture! [6]

W
Weevils! Whippersnapper! Wildcat! Woodlice! [4]

Z
Zapotecs! [1]

[fineleg]

Index of Miscellaneous Tintin Related Lists

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/index.html

such as:
Professor Calculus' Inventions


Soda-water maker [Red Rackham's Trasure]
Clothes brushing machine [Red Rackham's Treasure]
The Wall Bed [Red Rackham's Treasure]
Electric-powered submarine with oxygen supplies for two hours' diving [Red Rackham's Treasure]
Moon Rocket [Destination Moon]
Ultrasound Emitter [The Calculus Affair]
Motor-roller-skates [The Red Sea Sharks p61]
Super Calcacolor TV [The Castafiore Emerald] - colour TV with poor picture quality
New breed of white roses, "Bianca" [The Castafiore Emerald]
Herbal tablets that keep alcoholics away from the bottle [Tintin and the Picaros]
Machine that replicates three dimensional objects [Tintin and the Lake of Sharks]

[RicePlateReddy]

Fineleg, nice links.

Here's what Thomson and Thompson are called in Chinese:

湯姆森      湯普森

and Tintin is curiously, 丁丁

[RicePlateReddy]

This is what Gangulians call Snowy: Kuttus

Thomson and Thompson are referred to as "Manikjor" (twins) as a team; individually, they are called "Johnson" and "Ronson".

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/characters/names.html#notes

[fineleg]

Fineleg, nice links.

Here's what Thomson and Thompson are called in Chinese:

湯姆森      湯普森

and Tintin is curiously, 丁丁

KoP,
I just see small squares...are the characters not appearing correctly above?

[RicePlateReddy]

Fineleg, nice links.

Here's what Thomson and Thompson are called in Chinese:

湯姆森      湯普森

and Tintin is curiously, 丁丁

KoP,
I just see small squares...are the characters not appearing correctly above?

I suppose you need to download the fonts. See http://chinese.yahoo.com/docs/info/download.html for IE5. It shows up automatically in the latest version of firefox.

[sgusa]

And in current IE versions, thank you very much!

[kingcool1432]

And in current IE versions, thank you very much!

Confirms my suspicion that you folks in Microsoft don't really eat your own dog-food but have special custom built souped up versions for personal use 
Doesn't work in IE 7 running on "Ultimate".

[sgusa]

And in current IE versions, thank you very much!

Confirms my suspicion that you folks in Microsoft don't really eat your own dog-food but have special custom built souped up versions for personal use 
Doesn't work in IE 7 running on "Ultimate".

Hmm, well I am running enterprise edition of vista.

Well also depends on whether you have the language packs installed for chinese. I guess I have more lang packs installed.

PS: We do dog-food our products, quite a bit. I have been running my mainmachines on Vista for a while now!