Simon Pegg visited Steven Spielberg on the motion capture set of TINTIN where the actor claims/suggested/jokingly refers to the Times Online that he and his good pal Nick Frost may have been offered the chance to play the bumbling detectives The Thompson Twins in the soon to be filming movie…

“Steven’s smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he’s always been since I was a baby,” Pegg says, shaking his head in wonder. “I shook his hand and chatted about films. He gave me the mo-cap [motion-capture] camera, and I had a play around with it. Then he said, ‘Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins.’ In Tintin. A Spielberg movie. To work with him is beyond .. . ” He trails off, lost for words.

How truthful Spielberg was about being interested in the two guys, we can only speculate but you have to wonder why Pegg was on set anyway?

We know Pegg is great friends with Spielberg’s co-collaborator Peter Jackson who even made a very rare cameo in HOT FUZZ, so there could be a lot of fuel to this fire. Despite Thompson and Thompson being twins, the movie will be motion captured so presumably they could radically change their appearance to look-a-like, they managed to change Ray Winstone’s torso in BEOWULF after all.

Last week Universal dropped out of financing the movie, leaving Paramount Pictures as the sole financer of the $130 million trilogy. Thomas Sangster (as Tintin) and Andy Serkis (as Captain Haddock) were cast some time ago.