AICN today is claiming confirmation on rumors that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost would play the Thompson Twins in Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson’s Tintin movies.  A TimesOnline article would seem to corroborate. 

…Pegg trots over to the motion-capture set for the ET director’s latest project – the first in a trilogy of Tintin movies. [Spielberg to direct the first, Peter Jackson the second]  “Steven’s smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he’s always been since I was a baby [?],” Pegg says, shaking his head in wonder. “I shook his hand and chatted about films. He gave me the motion-capture camera, and I had a play around with it. Then he said, ‘Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins.’ In Tintin. A Spielberg movie. To work with him is beyond .. . ” He trails off, lost for words.

I don’t know much about Tintin other than that it’s a Belgian cartoon from like a billion years ago that’s been made into a couple different TV series and everyone seems to care about it.  You might also wonder how Ginger Pegg and Fatty Frost will play twins.  The answer is that the film will be motion capture, so they’ll be sort of animated.  Also, the Thompson Twins weren’t twins either.  In fact, there were three of them.  In conclusion, the 80s were stupid.