Peter Jackson confirms 'Tintin' sequel after 'The Hobbit' trilogy comes to an end, release date likely in 2016

Peter Jackson is the director set to helm the Tintin sequel, but this project seems to have fallen off of everyone's radar considering we haven't heard too much about it in a while. So is Jackson still planning on making the sequel or is it moving into someone else's hands? According to a new interview with Jackson, he's still planning on making the sequel but his Hobbit movies got in the way!

"As soon as I'm free of The Hobbit, I'll be going back into doing Tintin," Jackson recently explained during a recent red carpet event. "It was held up by The Hobbit, but we have every intention of doing another Tintin movie and it's just waiting on me to be done with these Hobbit movies."

Jackson previously said he hoped to film some mo-cap footage for the Tintin sequel this year, but clearly that is out of the question. As of now it looks like 2016 could be the year for this sequel even though Steven Spielberg wanted it to land in 2015.

"Peter Jackson is directing the next one, I'm producing," the filmmaker said in March of this year. "We have a script and we're going to start performance capture probably at the end of this year... Don't hold me to it, but we're hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we're making, we can't share that now but we're combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Herge."

It looks like Spielberg will have to settle for 2016, though.