The movies will be done in digital 3-D, using a technology that will permit them to capture human performances. This was the same technology used in The Polar Express.
The two directors will do three movies, one after the other, all about Tintin. Each director will do at least one of the films. The studio has not yet revealed who will do the third.
Tintin has been a project Spielberg has had his eye on for years, but has not been able to get the rights to this comic strip.
Peter Jackson’s team is set up in New Zealand, and have already begun trying to bring the character created by Remi, who was using the name Hergé, to life.
Spielberg stated "Hergé’s characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we’ve seen to date with computer animated characters."
He added, "We want Tintin’s adventures to have the reality of a live-action film, and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Hergé created."
Spielberg and Jackson have already chosen the three adventures that would come to the big screen.