Blistering barnacles! It’s Spielberg’s new Tintin
Thomas Sangster has been cast as Tintin in a new live-action film based on the comic book character to be made by Steven Spielberg. Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian
For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those who don’t, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. 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. 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.
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