With the Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn due out in theaters this Christmas, rumors suggest that the second Tintin movie, directed by Peter Jackson, is most likely Prisoners of the Sun, reports Collider.
The movie series, based upon the popular Belgian comic books, is expected to be a trilogy — depending on the success of the first movie starring Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost.
Anthony Horowitz, author of the popular children’s novels The Power of Five and Alex Rider, revealed that he has been tapped to draft the second film’s screenplay — and that it will be based upon the fourteenth title in the Tintin series, Prisoners of the Sun.
"The Secret of the Unicorn is being directed by Steven Spielberg… and if that film is a success and works and gets an audience, I’m writing the sequel to it, ‘Prisoners of the Sun,’ which Peter Jackson is going to direct," the author told BBC Radio 5.
"At the moment on the second one it’s just one [author] but you can bet your bottom dollar that by the time the film hits the screen, if it ever happens next year, that I’ll be joined by one or two other names there."