Brit teen looks the Tintin type

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson might have found their Tintin, the young Belgian reporter they are bringing to the big screen in a performance-capture-based film trilogy.

London's Daily Mail reported that the lucky lad is 17-year-old British actor Thomas Sangster, who has appeared in "Love, Actually" and "Nanny McPhee" and has a role in Jane Campion's "Bright Star," which is about to begin filming. A spokesman for Spielberg's DreamWorks studio declined comment.

While specifics about the project have been kept under wraps, Andy Serkis, who is set to play Tintin's globe-trotting buddy, Captain Haddock, recently told the IndieLondon Web site that he is about to begin work on the back-to-back features, with Spielberg handling the first film and Jackson taking the directorial reigns for the second.

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