{"id":31343,"date":"2009-03-08T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31343"},"modified":"2009-03-08T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:05:49","slug":"tintin-more-jackson-than-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/03\/08\/31343-tintin-more-jackson-than-spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tintin” More Jackson Than Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Garth Franklin at DarkHorizons (via Variety): While fans who are aware of “Tintin” have been enthusiastic about the project, the single most common complaint from fanboys unfamiliar with Herge’s brilliant stories of the roving reporter has been that their ‘god’ Steven Spielberg shouldn’t be wasting his time with such nonsense.<\/p>\n

This is despite the fact almost all of them are completely unfamiliar with the material, even though the twenty-four graphic novels have been in publication for over eight decades. Decades before the likes of “Watchmen” hit the shelves it was weaving stories of Middle Eastern tension, South American and Eastern European coup d’etats, opium smuggling, human trafficking, arms dealing and espionage. More…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Garth Franklin at DarkHorizons (via Variety): While fans who are aware of “Tintin” have been enthusiastic about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,167],"tags":[212,211],"class_list":["post-31343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-tintin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t