17 year old British actor Thomas Sangster, probably best known for playing the son of Liam Neeson in Love Actually (has he actually aged at all, is he really 17?) has been cast to do the voice and motion capture for the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson project Tintin which will begin filming in August.

The Daily Mail also tell us that Andy Serkis’ role is actually that of Captain Haddock, Tintin’s loyal sidekick.

You know, I wasn’t so sure of this motion capture technology after seeing its results in Robert Zemeckis’ movie The Polar Express but in retrospect it was more the idea that Tom Hanks played every single character and I guess we have to remember it was the early days of the technology.

In Beowulf, I was completely won over. It worked. I was utterly blown away, it was fantastic.

I can’t imagine any other way to do the epic tale after seeing that movie. And now I’m convinced that an Alex Ross style animated JLA movie is absolutely the best way to do such a movie in this current climate. You really could bring a comic book to life then because although it’s cool seeing Superman kick ass in live action… when you have seven superhero’s flying around and using all their powers, animated is the only way to make it as epic as it’s drawn.

So I’m really looking forward to seeing what Jackson and Spielberg come up here. It’s been YEARS since I’ve seen anything that involves Tintin but I’m sure both guys respect for history will take me back straight away. Spielberg directs the first movie… should be great.

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