He probably wouldn't kill them but he'd shoot them in the shoulder. "Tintin would hit people over the head with bottles and shoot people. For such a small kid he's very good at beating people up and, being a cartoon, nowadays you know, there's all that 'we can't be violent'. It's just like common sense: he jumps in and goes, he doesn't need to think about any safety, he just goes where he pleases. I love cars and aeroplanes and stuff, any car or any aeroplane or any gun that was ever used in Tintin would always be real, an exact copy of it so if it was a car it would be a Citroen and if it was a gun it would be a Luger. "You can really escape into this fantasy world. When I was really young I watched some episodes and loved it. I never saw the books because I was never that big on reading. Sangster admitted to the Guardian that he had not read Tintin until a few days ago. Now the production has taken another significant step with the casting of Sangster, alongside Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the adaptation of Tolkien's books, as Captain Haddock.īoth actors spent a week in Los Angeles before Easter running through scenes for Spielberg and Jackson work begins in earnest in September, with a view to releasing the first film in 2010.
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Spielberg has been working with Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, on how to bring Tintin to life. More than 200m copies of Hergé's Tintin books have been sold around the world fans tend to be devoted, if not obsessed by the character, his faithful dog Snowy and his perpetually frustrated friend Captain Haddock, an endearing drunk. The trilogy is likely to give the 17-year-old the same profile as Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter, or Elijah Wood, who shot to international stardom as Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings series. The sixth-former from south London, the Guardian can reveal, has been chosen by Steven Spielberg to be his Tintin for a three-movie adaptation of the boy reporter's adventures. For those who don't, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually.
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