Andy Serkis confirmed for Tintin role

Reuters

AHOY THERE: Andy Serkis has signed on for a role in Peter Jackson's Tintin, and according to rumours may play Captain Haddock.

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Andy Serkis is reteaming with director Peter Jackson in Tintin, the DreamWorks movie trilogy collaboration from the Lord of the Rings director and Steven Spielberg.

Although DreamWorks would not confirm, it is believed Serkis will play the role of Captain Haddock, a temperamental sea captain, in scribe Steven Moffat's adaptation of the comic strip created by late
Belgian animator Herge.

In the comics, Tintin is a young reporter and world traveller who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy and later accompanied by characters like Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling
detectives Thomson and Thompson.

The books, hugely popular in Europe, have been translated into 50 languages with more than 200 million sold.

The three feature films will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D. Jackson and Spielberg are each directing an instalment, with the director of the third movie yet to be determined.

Serkis played the wretched Gollum in Jackson's Lord of the Rings films ,and appeared in Jackson's remake of King Kong. His other credits include 13 Going on 30 and The Prestige.

- Reuters