The Oscar-winning director who ushered in the blockbuster film era with “Jaws” and brought sci-fi to the masses with movies such as “E.T: the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Minority Report,” will make his first appearance at Comic-Con International when he takes the stage in Hall H July 22.
The 64-year-old filmmaker will receive an Inkpot Award, which has been presented since 1974 to signature figures in comics and genre entertainment, among them Ray Bradbury, Jack Kirby, Hayao Miyazaki and R. Crumb.
And, keeping with the convention’s drumbeat of Hollywood promotion, Spielberg will be bringing footage from “The Adventures of Tintin,” the motion-capture movie from Paramount Pictures that reaches theaters in December and marks his first work as a feature director since “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” in 2008.
To give life to the boy-journalist character from the vintage Belgian adventure tales, “Tintin” uses state-of-the-art technology, which Spielberg described as “a whole new muscle set — the technology and the approach and the thinking of it. It was a muscle set I didn’t even know I had and the tools were entirely new. I did feel like a painter in a way, and that was exciting for me.”
Spielberg will get his award and discuss “Tintin” in Hall H, the 6,000-seat room where Hollywood stars and filmmakers present previews for fans. Interestingly, the day after Spielberg appears, Francis Ford Coppola will be on the same stage to promote his newest project, “Twixt.”
It’s a busy time for the filmmaker. On the heels of “Tintin,” Spielberg will release the World War I-era drama “War Horse,” the historic biopic “Lincoln” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, and, perhaps most intriguing, “Robopocalypse,” based on the startling Daniel H. Wilson novel.
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