He’s been gone for 28 years, but he appeared in a cameo that has the BEST tribute possible

And we’re still waiting for a Tintin sequel with Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg.

On January 10, 1929, Georges Remi (better known as Hergé), a 22-year-old young man who had been responsible for editing Le Petit Vingtième, the children’s supplement of the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, created a character who, without knowing it, will accompany him for the next 50 years of his life.

Thus he was born The Adventures of Tintin. The hero of the comic series is the Belgian reporter Tintin who, accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy, undertakes various adventures. Subsequently the story was adapted for animated versions, for the theater and also for the cinema.

Hergé’s legacy

In the week of his death, in 1983, Hergé met the director Steven Spielberg, the only person he believed could do Tintin justice. Many years later, he was proven absolutely right.

Spielberg became a Tintin fan by accident: a 1981 review in comparison Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark to Hergé’s comics, and began to devour them as if there was no tomorrow.

So much so that, in 1983, he negotiated the rights to an adaptation of the character after the animated films and the Franco-Spanish film Tintin and the Blue Oranges disappointed its author. His widow granted him the rights, but Spielberg wouldn’t make his dream film until 2011.

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