Exclusive first look at what Spielberg and Jackson intend to be the first in a trilogy of Tintin movies, which will bring the character and his cartoon comrades to life via the magic of James Cameron’s performance-capture technology.

Jamie Bell (who kicked his acting career into gear by starring in Billy Elliot) is the human force behind the animated Tintin character in Secret of the Unicorn, which Spielberg is directing and Jackson is producing. The latter justified the use of CGI in the film when he pointed out that the look and feel of Hergé’s hand-drawn creation can’t be replicated by using real people, but that “with CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylized caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”