Click to play videoNew Delhi: He is probably the most famous fictional journalist there is, and after 25 years of negotiations between Herge (Air-Jay) studios and the man who made extraterrestrials cute, Steven Spielberg, Tintin the intrepid reporter will finally be on celluloid.
''The negotiations between Dreamworks and our company has been going on for 25 years. In fact, it all started with Steven Spielberg, Katie Kennedy, the same lawyers on the American side. And this must be one of the longest negotiations in film history, and we are delighted that finally Dreamworks have decided to take up their options,” says Chairman, Herge Studios, Nick Rodwell.
Tintin was created in 1929 by Georges Remi, a Belgian artist who adopted the pen name Herge, and whose centenary will be marked this year.
Tintin's studio says Spielberg may not direct the movie himself, and they don't know if the film will be feature animation, live-action, or computer-generated imagery.
It is also not known which of the 23 books would be chosen for the first movie.
The studio also says that one of Tintin's closest friends, Captain Haddock, may not make the trip. But if the sales of 220 million Tintin books worldwide are anything to go by, the boy reporter might soon be giving Harry Potter some serious competition.
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