Film News (10/01/2009)

Tintin

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will continue to be best buddies in films as they have signed on as Thompson and Thomson in Spielberg's long awaited Tintin adaptation. This is great news. I love the comeraderie the pair have brought together in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, should be a riot to watch them bumble around together.

By the way have a look here for a fascinating article in the Times this week arguing the 80 year old Tintin might just need a good man in order to settle down.



The Way Back

I'm a big fan of Peter Weir, director of Gallipoli and The Truman Show. So when I hear his next film, about a ragtag group of soldiers escaping from a Soviet gulag, has enticed the likes of Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Jim Sturgess then you just know it will entice me.

Juliet

Following a shark like feeding frenzy at last years Frankfurt book festival (honestly I don't just make this stuff up) the rights to Anne Fortier's yet to be published novel Juliet have been bought up with the plan to release the film in 2011. It's a multistranded novel, aren't they all?, flicking between a 21st century girl learning the truth about her heritage and Romeo and Juliet. Could make for fascinating stuff, or at least some desperate casting choices.