More details have recently surfaced about Steven Spielberg’s Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (including that previously unconfirmed title). Jamie Bell will join the cast as Tintin and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It was previously known that Nick Frost and Simon Pegg will play the Thom(p)son Twins. Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling), Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead), and Joe Cornish have all created the screenplay.
/Film reports the film also contains plot from Red Rackham’s Treasure. These are the eleventh and twelfth books in the full series but also the first two parts of a four book cycle that continued with The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun. The second film is scheduled to be directed by Peter Jackson and no director has been hired for the third…yet.
Production started yesterday. Paramount and Sony are splitting the $135 milllion cost. The film is to be performance captured and released stereo-optically in 2011.
What do you think of the casting additions?