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Serkis to wear motion capture suit. Again.

Mon 17 Dec 1:20 PM

Andy Serkis must really like to wear that skin tight motion capture suit for Peter Jackson - he's set to don it again for the Tintin movie.

The motion capture suit, which Serkis has worn for Jackson directed movies The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, allows directors to go over the actor's movements and computer animate it to look like anything they want (hence why Ray Winstone in Beowulf looked like a muscular twenty something athlete and less like, well, Ray Winstone).

It's not known what part he will play in the CG 3D trilogy based on the adventures of Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock from the famed comic books by Herge.

Jackson and Steven Spielberg will each direct one, with the third director still to be named. Or maybe they will both direct - which would probably make a million film geeks self combust with anticipation.

The first instalment will begin filming next September