Tintin

Directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to adapt Herge's poplar comic series The Adventures of Tintin into a series of films. The series will include three films made back-to-back and will utilize a 3-D motion capture technique developed by Weta Digital, a special effects company.Variety: Spielberg, Jackson team for Tintin (May 14, 2007) It was confirmed at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, that Spielberg would direct the first film, Jackson the second and both would co-direct the third.The Dominion Post: Steven Spielberg reveals more Tintin plans(May 20, 2008)

• Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thomson and Thompson

The Adventures of Tintin follow the Tintin, a young Belgian reporter and traveler, and his faithful dog Snowy on their adventures around the world. In every adventure Tintin, while busy investigating a story, finds himself involved in dangerous cases which force him to take heroic action to save the day.

• Tintin: A young Belgian reporter and traveler. The series protagonist.
• Snowy: A white Fox Terrier and Tintin's faithful, four-legged companion.
• Captain Haddock: Tintin's best friend, a seafaring captain of disputed ancestry
• Thomson and Thompson: Two comical detectives who look alike and only told apart by their different mustaches