Peter Jackson To Write & Direct Tintin Sequel
The long-awaited sequel might not be much futher away.
Acclaimed director Peter Jackson has revealed insight into how he’s utilising his time while attending the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, sharing exciting details that he is getting creative and working on a new script for his Tintin project.
This is the upcoming adaptation of Les Aventures de Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin), a comic book album series created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (real name Georges Remi), focused on a Belgian reporter called Tintin and his trusted companion, Snowy the dog (called Milou in the French transcription). Additional characters include Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol), Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) and Bianca Castafiore.
The comics, segmented into 24, began in 1929 and ended in 1976, going on to become one of Europe’s most popular, evident in 200 million copies sold in over 70 languages.
Now Jackson, the name behind the cultural phenomenon and masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will bring the reporter to the big screen and is using Cannes as an opportunity to get the story written down. The film will be a sequel to American filmmaking legend Steven Spielberg’s original 2011 adaptation, The Adventures of Tintin.
“I’ve been working with Fran [Walsh] on another Tintin script, I was writing it in the hotel room here,” the filmmaker shared during a chat at the festival. “It’s an active real thing, and I’m getting back into the Tintin world, and I actually love it.”
The director also spoke on a deal he made with Spielberg on adapting the source material, as he holds production credits on the Disclosure Day creator’s adaptation.
“The deal was that Steven directs one and I direct another,” Jackson shared.
“Steven did his film, then for 15 years, I haven’t made mine,” he added. “I feel very awkward about that.”
There are a total of seven feature film adaptations of Hergé’s work, including two live actions, a 1961 film by Jean-Jacques Vierne, and a 1964 one by Philippe Condroyer, as well as five animated ones.
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