Juliette ([info]two_blue) wrote in [info]boyreporter,
@ 2008-03-23 23:24:00
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Aparently this little chappy has been cast as Tintin.  Ok so I only read this on the 'Don't Let Dreamworks Ruin Tintin' facebook group (they got it from comingsoon.net) but I'm pretty happy with this casting.  I think give him a few years and he'll make a fabulous tintin!  What do you guys think?


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[info]time_ambassador
2008-03-24 01:01 am UTC (link)
I think it's weird as hell that he got cast as Tintin. Apparently he's 17 but he looks 8 years old to me.

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[info]two_blue
2008-03-24 01:09 am UTC (link)
well tintint's pretty ageless. but bear in mind the picture of Thomas Sangster is from 2006 so he was 15 there. plus the film's not going to be filmed, I assume, for a few years so i reckon he'll be about 20 by then PLUS it's not live action anyway!

He is very sweet 'n' young looking right now though!

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[info]viva_suspenders
2008-03-24 01:34 am UTC (link)
Oh god no, he can't be younger than me! I always thought Tintin would be in his early twenties.

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[info]time_ambassador
2008-03-24 01:44 am UTC (link)
Same here! Reading the comics as a kid I always just assumed he was fresh out of some university.

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[info]two_blue
2008-03-24 01:03 pm UTC (link)
lol tintin's alway gonna be younger then me - it's depressing but hell, that's what time does to everyone except, aparently, tintin!

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[info]shinraisei
2008-03-24 04:18 am UTC (link)
I had no idea Thomas Sangster was 17. I saw his episode in Doctor Who S3 (2007) and he looks 10-12...even though I believe his character is 16 since he gets drafted into the military? (the episode he was in dealt with WWI or II I think)

Mind, I had the impression that Tintin was 18-20+. Especially if you've seen the 60s movies, he looks about that age (I think the actor at the time was 17-18). Can't remember though if since Love Actually or the two episodes of DW, if Sangster's voice has deepened.

Let's see how this goes. :) (Who knows, the Wiki article says that he's been cast in the movie but NOT as Tintin--he could just be that all-important secondary character kid who helps out Tintin et al)

EDIT: Although, by the time filming would start he would be 18, and when the series finishes, he'd be about 20 or so? No?

Edited at 2008-03-24 04:20 am UTC

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[info]smidgeroo
2008-03-24 07:17 am UTC (link)
He's a cute little whatsit, but the movies are purported to be CG, so it doesn't hold much water with me unless they mean voice acting. We'll see. I've heard a thousand different stories as to who's supposedly being cast...

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[info]time_ambassador
2008-03-24 07:36 pm UTC (link)
The movie is going to be CG, yes, but they're going to use motion-capture on the actors much like they did in Beowulf. So the CG characters will actually look like the actors themselves.

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[info]two_blue
2008-03-24 07:38 pm UTC (link)
beowulf was atrocious. I'm q excited about tintin now!

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[info]time_ambassador
2008-03-24 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Atrocious? You really thought it was that bad? D:

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[info]smidgeroo
2008-03-25 05:37 am UTC (link)
oO; Nifty.

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[info]deerlike
2008-05-02 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Oh lord. I'm on the side of that Facebook group. I'll stick with the '90s cartoons, thanks.

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[info]two_blue
2008-05-03 09:19 am UTC (link)
personally i think the 90's cartoons were appalling! I find the middlesborough tintins faaaaaaaaar less offensive!

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[info]deerlike
2008-05-03 10:29 am UTC (link)
Really? They followed the plot of comics (albeit somewhat abridged) and the animation didn't deviate from Hergé's style. Quite offensive, indeed.

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[info]two_blue
2008-05-03 10:35 am UTC (link)
ha ha! yeah I read all the books. I never really watched the cartoons as a child. the animation is very true to herge's style but it was the charecters that upset me. Tintin was all "hey snowy lets go have an adventure" ugh, no! it was far to americanised and peppy for my liking!!!

i loved the stage adaptation on tintin in tibet, that was fantastic. really got the feeling right and i loved the portrayl of snowy! it was perfection!

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[info]deerlike
2008-05-03 10:56 am UTC (link)
Americanised? Well, it was produced and animated by a Canadian company, if that's what you mean. All I can think is that, since the cartoons were adapted for a younger audience and broadcast worldwide, they'd be less off-colour or pointedly ethnocentric (as the comics often tended to be).

But even the comics were about adventures and transnational camaraderie, I think. Hergé used all of it to deliver some keen sociopolitical commentary.

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[info]two_blue
2008-05-03 11:27 am UTC (link)
i think there's just two different camps of tintin fans. the books and the cartoon.

i am aware that it was a canadian company which did the cartoons. I just found they didn't meld with the impressions I'd got from the books. the charecters seemed a little off and accent/voices jarred!

right anyway my dear I'm off out to enjoy the rare sunshine! ta ra!

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[info]deerlike
2008-05-03 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Or those who enjoy both, at any rate.

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[info]tregenza
2008-03-24 09:40 am UTC (link)
The original story appeared in the Daily Mail but is totally unconfirmed. Could be genuine, could be the reporting of gullible journalist.

Tintin Movie has the full details.

Personally I think he would make a good Tintin.

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[info]katty008
2008-03-28 02:21 am UTC (link)
*unplugs laptop, skids downstairs, shouts to world in joy*

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