If you don't recognise this guy, you've either never had a television, access to a library, a book-shop of any kind or a childhood(well, a redeemable one at any rate). Yes it is Tintin and his faithful companion snowy and they are due to get a silver-screen re-make helmed by Spielberg himself. The film also has a host of british talent such as Jamie bell(playing our man Tintin in all his quiff-sporting glory),Andy Serkis(Captain Haddock, bit bemused by this choice to be fair), and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to play the hapless Thompson twins(another head-scratcher alright, but I have faith) also Daniel Craig as Red Rackham.
That probably gives you a clue as to which story from the Tintin compendium they've chosen to make into a movie. Yes it is indeed Secret of the Unicorn.
Another thing to note is that it will be all in motion capture(much like Beowulf) as opposed to live-action or 2d animation. Not sure where I stand on this, gonna have to wait on the day the trailers come out to make a final decision on whether it's a good idea or not it could go disastrously wrong.



This image(left) is a shot of them actually doing the motion-capture, so it all looks professional enough(hopefully it's more Lord of the Rings than Tron kinda effects though, plus that Snowy doll they're using looks a bit freaky)

All in all, although I'm always hedgy around re-makes(see my Scream post) it has the right ingredients for a summer blockbuster and will no doubt rake in a few coppers on opening night with enough interest to warrant the sequel(there has to be a sequel!) but I'm praying to my Atheist-god that He (Spielberg) won't destroy the Tintin franchise like he did Indiana Jones and include aliens for the hell of it. So take my advice Sir Spielberg: Keep it grounded and there'll be no problems!(or I will destroy you)