The Adventures of Tintin - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[richard]

The first 3-D movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

[ava]

Tom Hanks was originally cast as Captain Haddock.

[lynn]

During filming, James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Daldry, and David Fincher paid a visit to the set.

[melinda]

When Tintin shoots down the seaplane, he fires his pistol in a peculiar stance where he steadies the gun on his elbow. This is a reference to the Tintin comic "Land of Black Gold" where Tintin fires a pistol using this stance.

[kenneth]

Hergé has an animated cameo, a little over four minutes into the movie, as a man painting. This is played up when the painter asks Tintin if he's drawn him before, with an answer of "occasionally". The cameo is voiced by Nathan Meister.

[charlie]

When Bianca the Milanese Nightingale meets Omar Ben Salaad, she introduces Sakharine as "Monsieur Sugar Additive" with a rolling accent, a nod to his name sounding like saccharine.

[frederick]

When Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) first gets woken up by Tintin (Jamie Bell) and Snowy, he yells, "A giant rat of Sumatra!" This is a reference to a Sherlock Holmes adventure mentioned by Dr. John Watson, but never related in the Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is also a reference to the Peter Jackson film Dead Alive (1992), in which a (fictional) Sumatran Rat Monkey, whose bite infected the victim into becoming a zombie, is transported on a cargo ship.

[lynn]

The coordinates on the parchments point to Marlinspike Hall as the treasure's location, which is hidden inside a statue of a globe. The Tintin comic "Red Rackham's Treasure" gives a more elaborate explanation: The coordinates lead them to the Island off which the real Unicorn sank, and following a diving expedition a box was found in the sunken ship which had an old document stating that Marlinespike hall was owned by Haddock's family, and after acquiring the Hall through an auction they went into the cellar where Tintin picks clues and presses the location of the island on the globe statue to reveal the treasure.

[oscar]

When the two ships are fighting in Haddock's desert hallucination, and the top of the masts get tangled, the ship swinging over the deck of the other is a reference to the "Pirate Ship" ride, frequently seen in UK (and probably elsewhere) fairgrounds.

[liam]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon were considered for the part of Tintin in the 1990s.

[addison]

The first animated film directed by Steven Spielberg.

[kristina]

At the beginning of the movie, when Tintin is having his likeness drawn, the other likenesses posted in the background are of characters featured in various Tintin books, and as shown in the inside covers of every Tintin book.

[sara]

Is one of three films to win the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature without also winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the other two being Cars (2006) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). Of the three, The Adventures of Tintin is the only one to not have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

[christina]

Director's Trademark: (stars).

[toni]

The framed newspapers on the walls of Tintin's apartment feature headlines and photos that recall his other adventures. The headline "Tintin Breaks Up Crime Ring", with a picture of several Egyptian mummy cases, refers to "Cigars of the Pharaoh" and the headline "Tintin Recovers Valuable Sceptre" refers to "King Ottokar's Sceptre". The headline "Tintin retrieves national artifact" refers to "The Broken Ear". "Tintin finds Fang Hsi-ying" to "The Blue Lotus". "Forgers found on mystery isle" to "The Black Island". "Reporter Tintin unmasks tribe of gangsters" to "Tintin in the Congo".

[russell]

This is Nickelodeon's first involvement with Tintin in twenty years. Nickelodeon originally aired The Adventures of Tintin (1991).

[javier]

Screenwriter Steven Moffat claims he was "love-bombed" by Steven Spielberg into writing the script for this film, with Spielberg promising to shield him from studio interference with his writing.

[kristen]

The ship in the bottle and the Unicorn are based upon the "Soleil Royal", a large French ship of the line that was launched in 1669.

[nora]

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones, and Tony Curran have had guest roles in the revived series Doctor Who (2005). Steven Moffat, one of the screenwriters of the film, took over from Russell T. Davies as head writer and producer of the series in 2010.