Andy Serkis News

Actor Andy Serkis recently discussed his upcoming film project, Tintin, along with a pair of fairly well-known directors involved with it.

Are you going to be reuniting with Peter Jackson again for Tintin?
Andy Serkis: In fact tomorrow I'm flying out to start on Tintin. Steven Spielberg is directing the first one, and then Peter Jackson is doing the second. The bulk of the shoot starts in September, but things got a little bit moved around after the writers' strike.

Do you feel a special kinship with him?
Andy Serkis: Yeah, I mean at the moment he's doing The Lovely Bones at the moment, which I think is going to be amazing. But we do seem to be in sync, certainly in terms of collaborating and creating characters and so on. I think we have a similar sense of humour about things, so yeah we do seem to have fused in a particular way.

Steven Spielberg has found the first member of his cast for the adaption of the Adventures of Tintin.

Variety states that Andy Serkis - best-known for his work as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films - has signed on to play an unnamed role in DreamWorks' planned Tintin trilogy. The part is rumored to be the sardonic, whiskey-loving Captain Haddock.

Spielberg and Peter Jackson are collaborating on the Tintin trilogy, with each director set to helm at least one of the installments.