Pegg & Frost confirmed for TINTIN!
At first what we thought of as gimmick casting, has actually been confirmed today for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's TINTIN 3-D motion captured trilogy. AICN say Brit duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will play the bumbling Thompson Twins. Which should be interesting because neither Pegg or Frost looking anything a like. It's also been confirmed that Andy Serkis is also still on board as Captain Haddock but LOVE ACTUALLY youngster Thomas Sangster dropped out as the lead character when the Autumn shoot was pushed back to February 09. After losing Universal's financing in the Summer, Sony Pictures stepped in to co-finance this $130 million production alongside Paramount Pictures - remarkably neither of them have as much faith in the worldwide appeal of TINTIN to finance it solo. The first in the TINTIN trilogy will be released next Summer and will be directed by Spielberg. Peter Jackson's second installment will come sometime later.