"Hot Fuzz" duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been approached to star in the upcoming "Tintin" movie series.

Producer/Director Steven Spielberg believes the British comedy duo would be great as bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson (Interestingly, the characters were identical twins in the comics).

Pegg says he met Spielberg on the set of the new Tintin flick, remarking that he wasn't there to meet about a role - but essentially walked away with one. "[Spielberg] said, ‘Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins'", Pegg tells the Times Online.

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