Liverpool city region-born actor Daniel Craig is set to play a pirate villain in a new 3D motion-capture animated movie version of Herge's famous Aventures of Tintin.
The Wirral-born hunk will star alongside Jamie Bell in The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn, which will be directed by Steven Spielberg.
Bell, 22, who shot to fame as a teenage ballet dancer in Billy Elliot, will take the lead and provide the voice and motion for the intrepid Belgian reporter with the famous quiff.
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983).
The series first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, the series has continued as a favourite of readers and critics alike for 80 years.
The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French).
Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other colourful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont). Herge himself features in every comic, as a background character.
The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre.
The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.
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