Feeling lackluster about the upcoming Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson live action version of Tintin? Well, you're not the only one. Despite the high profile talent behind the camera nobody seems to be paying much attention to this one so far. Heck, nobody even particularly noticed when Tintin himself - actor Thomas Sangster - dropped out of the film. But things just got a whole lot more interesting with a pair of casting announements.
It already seemed pretty much inevitable that Jackson regular Andy Serkis would have a place in the film and his part as Captain Haddock fits like a glove. But we already knew about that one. The new news? Shaun of the Dead and Spaced alumni Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as bowler-hatted detectives Thomson and Thompson. Whee! Keep casting like this and suddenly people are going to notice.
I think TinTin can be played by a woman.
^ Tilde Swinton maybe?
I love these news though. Sounds like I might have to see this actually.
Very Fine Choice ... but they will have to get into quite a bit of more similar shape and figure then ...
I still would love to see old Christopher Lloyd shine ones more as professor ... When he came to visit us at a Belgian filmfestival last year (as guest of honor), somebody dropped the suggestion, and he was very keen to play ball ... "all they have to do is ask" ...
Yeah right.
Those two really look like identical twins...
I hope it might work and earns them enough to continue doing fun stuff, but I'm not enthusiastic about this casting at all.
Remember folks the film is being shot with mo-cap so it doesn't matter whether any of the actors "look" their respective parts. Serkis certainly didn't look like Gollum and that worked out just fine. The casting of Pegg and Frost is both obvious and inspired imo.
But it is strange that they are casting two actors with very distinct voices. Twins tend to sound alike as well.
This project just became officially awesome.
...actually scratch that - it became awesome the moment they signed on Steven Moffat as a writer. His sitcom Coupling is pretty much the funniest thing ever and Doctor Who episodes show off the dramatic side. So Moffat - Pegg collaboration would rate somewhere around the second cominng in the geek haven scale. The one thing I can't figure out is how to get Spielberg into the mix.