While visiting London for the Royal gala premiere of film 'The Lovely Bones', the BBC got to ask Peter Jackson about 'Tintin', Jackson told them that Tintin is in the can, but it will take two years for the computer animation to be completed:
"Tintin is great. It's made. The movie is cut together and now [we] are turning it into a fully-rendered film".Also they got to ask Peter how the Hobbit script is coming along and will it be filmed for 3D, to which he replied:
"So the movie, to some degree, exists in a very rough state."
"We're writing the screenplays with him, so in terms of the script, there is continuity," he said.
"We're writing Ian McKellen's dialogue just the same as we did in Lord Of The Rings. But Guillermo, being the director, will obviously take the script and interpret that and shoot his film. So that'll be interesting to see.
"That's actually the reason I wanted him to do it. I felt like I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately do things differently, which is not the way I want to work. I want it to be natural."
Unlike Tintin, he revealed, The Hobbit will not be filmed in 3D, despite the current vogue for the technology in the movie industry.
"Guillermo wants to shoot in 35mm, old-fashioned film," Jackson said, "which suits me, because he wants to keep it in the same space as the original trilogy".
But Jackson gave a cautious welcome to 3D, saying it "only adds to the experience" of watching a movie.
"The only thing I get annoyed about is the image being a little dull.
"It does feel like you're looking at the movie with sunglasses on. But literally, that could just be about getting brighter bulbs in the projectors."
