So this guy, Jamie Bell, is playing Tintin in the Spielberg movie. He looks so right for the part, I can’t believe he wasn’t the first choice!
"Shooting on the first movie, ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’, has been completed. Spielberg and crew just wrapped an under-the-radar 32-day run of performance capture sessions with the principal cast, which includes Jamie Bell as our plucky, bequiffed hero and Daniel Craig as his nemesis Red Rackham. Rounding out the cast are motion capture stalwart Andy Serkis as seafaring boozehound Captain Haddock, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as the bumbling Thompson twins and the ubiquitous Mackenzie Crook as an unnamed, but surely villainous sidekick type character. There’s no word yet on how much of the actors’ physical performances will remain in the finished film: Pegg and Frost, for example, are playing identical twins, which is going to require a fair amount of digital trickery."
the whole article here
With a cast this hot, how can it possibly fail?
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I think our current Prime Minister looks more like Tintin…..
He can play Tintin at a later stage of his life
Ooooh that’s so exciting! I can’t wait! I’m also excited about Robert Downey Jnr as Sherlock Holmes.
Its like the movie people are reading our minds
That’s true! Though I just heard that Helena Bonham Carter is playing Enid Blyton in a BBC Production. V. Excited about the production, not sure sure about the Carter.
Hmmm… I pictured someone frumpier.
I’m sure she can do frumpy. I’m just not sure if she can lose the weird.
yeah, maybe.
Me, I’d watch Pegg and Frost do *anything*, even Morris dancing.
ditto!!!. Hey, don’t forget we’re having lunch in 15 minutes!
I’d watch most people do morris dancing.
sick sick woman!!!
I admit it :). Although I will admit to finding Bulgarian dancing more enticing.
I shudder to imagine
One day I’m going to get you to a falk dance party. I might need to ply you wiht much vodka first, but I think it would be fun to watch you meet the Balkans. You’re safe till I’m well enough to dance again, though, which could be a while.
I might need to ply you wiht much vodka first
looks like you’ve been on the piss already!
When IU hurt, the rst of the world must suffer my typing. Agony shared is a commmunity of agony. Or in this case a community of sore shoulders and shocking typing.
I remain suspicious
Does that mean you’re not accepting my generous gift of hurt?
yep
Woe! Rejected!
I am going to quibble about the amount of hair on his head.
sure, it’s not quiffed… quiffing comes later.
Wrong colour, too. I was under the impression Tintin is blonde.
nope. He’s always been a carrot top
The printing on my copies is that bad?
apparently
Wow. I’ve bee under an illusin cused by bad printing all this time.
Although, since it’s all going to be digitally altered anyway, he could just as easily be a brunette – or bald… Hope he can move right, anyways!
very true.
I need to re-read them…
Is that the kid from Billy Elliot? He growed up handsome.
not sure
‘Tis. I clicked your linkage.
ah! I didn’t actually link my own linkage there. When I cut and pasted from the article, the linkage came along too!
Sounds AWESOME!
Probably the only movie I am keen to actually see!
Don’t know Andy Serkis though… and will there be a Professor Calculus? Can’t remember if he’d come along by then…
Andy Serkis played Gollum in LOTR
Cat, I love this guy, but are you sure that is a picture of Jamie Bell? Cos I have seen him in lots of things and I googled him with Tintin and… that so doesn’t look like him at all.
Not that I’m complaining, the real Jamie Bell looks more ratlike. Unless he’s really filled out in recent months…
Daniel Craig as Red Rackham – mmm, something to look forward to. And Simon Pegg as one half of the Thompsons will be good too.
But who is going to play Snowy?
Good question!
Tintin…
GULP!!! (Picks up jaw off ground….) I’m in love!!!!! He friggin’ GORGEOUS!!!!
Re: Tintin…
Hi Nick!