Tintin News

English actor Thomas Sangster has reportedly landed the title role in the Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson motion-capture collaboration Tintin.

The 17-year old, has appeared in Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, as well as two episodes of Doctor Who. He also played young Adolf Hitler in the miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil.

According to The Daily Mail, Sangster (pictured) "has already been to Los Angeles to work on preproduction test sequences with both directors."

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.