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Six thousand people packed into Comic-Con’s Hall H broke out in a simultaneous nerdgasm as Peter Jackson made a surprise appearance alongside Steven Spielberg at this morning’s panel for Dec. 23′s The Adventures of Tintin. Jackson, who has been in production on his long-awaited fantasy epic The Hobbit since the spring, had said in recent days that he would not be attending the convention. Spielberg, who was making his own first-ever appearance at Comic-Con like a deity descending from on high, was greeted with a standing ovation as the panel began. He introduced what was supposed to be a clip of an animation test of the CGI dog in Tintin and was instead a clip of Jackson, wearing a sailor’s cap and holding a bottle of booze, purportedly doing his own screen test for the role of Captain Haddock. Then Jackson himself took the stage. “Working with Steven has been amazing,” Jackson said, deadpan. “I think he shows real promise. If he decides to stick with filmmaking, I think he could really go places.”
Early in the presentation, Spielberg asked the crowd at the beginning of the presentation how many in the crowd had ever read a Tintin book and seemed relieved at the amount of applause: “That makes my job easier.” He said he hoped that the film could kick off a new franchise. READ FULL STORY »
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