“Star Trek” cast newcomer Simon Pegg will have another established audience to please when Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” comes to theaters in 2010. Pegg appears undaunted by the skeptical mumbles he’s heard, however, and left recent shots for the film impressed by the special effects process used to turn him and his fellow on-screen twin Nick Frost into nearly identical characters based on motion-capture work.

“We shot earlier this year, here in L.A.,” Pegg told Collider.com. “Fascinating experience just in terms of how it worked.”

The “Shaun of the Dead” star laughed off doubts he originally read about the movie and explained exactly how he and Frost became the Thomson and Thompson twins for the new film franchise based on the internationally renowned comics by Belgian creator Hergé. Read more…

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the classic ‘Tintin’ comics isn’t having an easy time making it to the big screen. Production is only a month away, but the film lacks all but one cast member: Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock. But Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that the film finally has a grand total of three cast members — and the newest additions are as close to geek gods as you can get: Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

Frost and Pegg will play the Thomson and Thompson twins, two men who are identical on the page except for the curl of their moustaches. As the film is using motion capture technology, it will be easy to actually make them resemble each other. But who wants to bet Spielberg will stray from the comic page, and allow their true looks to shine through? Why cast Pegg and Frost unless you want them to, well, be themselves? Read more…

On Monday, we reported that Kirsten Dunst told us — with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi officially signed-up — that we could also count her “in” for reprising her role as Mary Jane in the “Spider-Man” franchise.

But that wasn’t the only Spidey talk during our chat. In the full exchange below, watch Simon Pegg throw his hat into the ring as a possible guest-sibling, a discussion of villains (despite some difficulty with character names), and Dunst revealing her favorite scene from “Spider-Man 3.”

Be sure to head over to MTV Movies to check out the full interview with Dunst and Pegg.

What do you say, readers — is she in or out? And would you like to see Simon Pegg in an upcoming “Spider-Man” flick? Talk to us in the comments.

For quite some time now, “Spider-Man” star Kirsten Dunst has had one major condition as to whether or not she’d sign-up for any future sequels of the franchise — that director Sam Raimi and co-star Tobey Maguire be signed on as well.

Well, now that the news has broken that both Raimi and Maguire have signed back on for a fourth and fifth installment – with a hefty paycheck attached as well — MTV News posed the big question to Dunst while she was promoting her upcoming film, “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” with Simon Pegg. Is she in or is she out?

“I’m in,” said the actress matter of factly. However, when pressed to make the announcement official, Dunst quickly changed her tone, and rather cryptically added, “I’m not saying anything, I know there’s rumors…” Read more…