Variety is reporting that Jamie Bell (Billy Elliott) and Daniel Craig (Bond…James Bond) have been cast as Tintin and Red Rackham in the upcoming Steven Spielberg animated feature The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Adding them to previously-announced castmates Andy Serkis, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the pair round out the cast for the feature, which has had a secretive pre-production following reports that its funding may have been in danger at one point, despite the attachment of Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings).

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