Peter Jackson Confirms Tintin Sequel Is Finally Happening

Peter Jackson confirmed at Cannes Film Festival that a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin is officially in development
Jackson is writing the screenplay himself and plans to direct the film
The original 2011 film was directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Jackson
Fans have waited 15 years for a follow-up after the first film performed well at the box office

The wait is finally over. Peter Jackson confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival that a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin is happening — and this time, he’s stepping into the director’s chair himself.

It’s been 15 years since the first film arrived in theaters. Steven Spielberg directed that 2011 motion-capture adventure, with Jackson producing alongside him, and the two had always talked about swapping roles for a follow-up. Now, finally, Jackson says he’s actively working on the screenplay and intends to direct the picture himself.

The original film was a genuine crowd-pleaser — a visually inventive, globe-trotting caper that brought Hergé’s beloved comic-strip reporter to life with a level of energy that felt unmistakably Spielbergian. It earned over $370 million worldwide and won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. And yet, despite the goodwill and the clear appetite for more, a sequel never came. Development stalled, years passed, and Tintin quietly became one of cinema’s most famous cases of a sequel that was always “coming soon” but never quite arriving.

Why It Took So Long — and Why It’s Happening Now

Both Spielberg and Jackson have been among the busiest filmmakers in Hollywood over the past decade and a half, which goes a long way toward explaining the gap. Spielberg alone has kept an extraordinary pace — he’s currently putting the finishing touches on Disclosure Day, his upcoming alien-invasion film, while also developing what he’s described as his first-ever Western. Jackson, meanwhile, had his own slate of ambitious projects to work through.

But the Cannes announcement signals that the sequel has moved from wishful thinking to genuine momentum. Jackson is writing the script. He plans to direct. That’s not a rumor or a vague expression of interest — that’s a filmmaker committing publicly, at one of the world’s most visible film stages, to making it happen.

For fans of the original, and for the generations who grew up reading Hergé’s comics, this is the news they’ve been waiting for since the credits rolled in 2011. Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and the rest of the gang are coming back — just with a different visionary at the helm this time.