E3 09: Steven Spielberg Collaborating With Ubisoft on Tintin Game
At its E3 press conference this evening, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that filmmakers Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are collaborating with the publisher on a video game based on the duo’s upcoming movie Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
In development at Ubisoft’s Montpellier studio, Tintin will utilize the same “state-of-the-art, next-generation performance capture” that’s now going into making the movie.
“We look forward to working with Ubisoft and the filmmakers to create exciting new interactive adventures for Tintin,” said Thomas Lesinski, President of Paramount Digital Entertainment, the film’s distributor.
Arguably one of the most beloved comics in all of Europe, Tintin follows the globe trotting adventures of a young newspaper journalist and his white Wire Fox Terrier, Snowy. Originally conceived as an early 20th-century newspaper comic strip by Belgian artist Hergé, it later spawned several live-action films and animated television series.
The game is expected to launch on all major platforms alongside the film in December, 2011.