{"id":1162,"date":"2007-12-15T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/he-played-gollum-he-played-king-kong\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T10:29:00","slug":"he-played-gollum-he-played-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/he-played-gollum-he-played-king-kong.html","title":{"rendered":"He played Gollum &#8230; he played King Kong &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">\u2026 so of <i>course<\/i> Andy Serkis had to be cast in the motion-capture adaptation of the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/spielberg-jackson-tintin-trilogy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tintin<\/a><\/i> comics currently being developed by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg.  Interestingly, though, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117977764.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Serkis will be playing someone <i>other<\/i> than Tintin himself \u2014 though who, exactly, the studio won\u2019t say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3id192e882e824aeba11830a44a5f41157\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says \u201cit is believed Serkis will play the role of Capt. Haddock, a temperamental sea captain\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 so of course Andy Serkis had to be cast in the motion-capture adaptation of the Tintin comics currently being developed by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Interestingly, though, Variety reports that Serkis will be playing someone other than Tintin himself \u2014 though who, exactly, the studio won\u2019t say. UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter says \u201cit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>He played Gollum ... he played King Kong ...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"... so of course Andy Serkis had to be cast in the motion-capture adaptation of the Tintin comics currently being developed by Peter Jackson and Steven\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/he-played-gollum-he-played-king-kong.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"He played Gollum ... he played King Kong ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"... so of course Andy Serkis had to be cast in the motion-capture adaptation of the Tintin comics currently being developed by Peter Jackson and Steven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/he-played-gollum-he-played-king-kong.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-12-15T10:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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