There is no bigger geek god than Steven Spielberg, who made his Comic-Con debut today. And when he arrived on the Hall H stage, the packed audience gave him a fittingly enthusiastic standing ovation.
And the crowd went wild again just a few minutes later at the panel for The Adventures of Tintin, the director's new animated performance-capture flick, when he brought out his producer: Peter Jackson, who flew in from New Zealand during a break from filming The Hobbit.
George Lucas may be his best friend, but Spielberg looks at Jackson as a sibling. "Its like working with your brother. It's very, very easy."
Jackson says he grew up reading Belgian artist Hergé'ss "even before I could read." So he recalls being especially excited in 1981 to hear that Spielberg was trying to get a Tintin movie made.
Spielberg had first heard about Tintin when in a French magazine review of his Raiders of the Lost Ark, they compared Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones to Hergé's intrepid teenage reporter and his canine sidekick Snowy.
He also saw a kinship between Tintin and the iconic globetrotting archaeologist. "You're not supposed to do this when you're a journalist but Tintin put himself in the story and often became involved in the adventure," Spielberg says.
The filmmaking pair debuted 3-D footage from Tintin, which reflected a similar old-fashioned feel and sense of serialized high adventure as the Indiana Jones films.
In a Q&A session, fans asked Jackson about his current follow-up to The Lord of the Rings — "I'm enjoying The Hobbit way more than I thought I would," he says. I try to make films for the kid I still am."
Spielberg told one person that his proudest moment as a producer was doing Robert Zemeckis' three Back to the Futurefilms, and a little boy asked him which one of his movies was his favorite. His answer? E.T.
"I never wanted to have children before E.T. Now I have seven of them," said Spielberg, who announced that he's hired a writer for a fourth Jurassic Park movie.
As the panel started, Spielberg was honored with the Inkpot Award, Comic-Con's award for lifetime achievement in pop culture.
"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you," Spielberg told the crowd. "I feel like I should be out there in the audience with you and not up here. We're all in the same world together."
Source: www.usatoday.com
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