Peter Jackson revealed that he has been working on the script for his Tintin film while attending Cannes Film Festival.
“I’ve been working with Fran [Walsh, Jackson’s partner] on another Tintin script, I was writing it in the hotel room here,” said Jackson in his Rendezvous session at the festival, discussing his career and upcoming works.
“It’s an active real thing, and I’m getting back into the Tintin world, and I actually love it.”
Jackson revealed the pact he made with Steven Spielberg on Tintin, with the New Zealand filmmaker having produced Spielberg’s 2011 The Adventures Of Tintin.
“The deal was that Steven directs one and I direct another,” said Jackson. “Steven did his film, then for 15 years [later] I haven’t made mine. I feel very awkward about that.”
Jackson was speaking the morning after receiving an honorary Palme d’Or at the festival’s opening ceremony.
Discussing projects he would like to take on in future, Jackson said he has longed to make a film about Operation Chastise, known as the Dambusters Raid – an attack on German dams by a UK Royal Air Force squadron in the Second World War. “The true story is much more interesting [than the 1955 film The Dam Busters],” said Jackson. “A lot of that technology was top secret that they couldn’t put in the 1950s film. That’s an amazing story about invention and solving problems to achieve a goal.
In the 95-minute session, Jackson went back over his career of almost 40 years, including a lengthy discussion of The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films.
He also touched on the use of AI in film. “I don’t dislike it at all, to me it’s just a special effect,” said Jackson. “The only thing with AI that’s critical is you don’t AI an actor or somebody without their approval. Just as you can’t adapt a book that somebody has written without owning the rights to the book.”
Cannes Film Festival runs until Saturday, May 23.
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