Ben Kingsley Joins 'Thunderbirds' Cast

[Monday, February 3rd, 2003]
Ben Kingsley will star in the live-action film version of the 1960s cult U.K. television puppet series Thunderbirds, says Hollywood Reporter.

Kingsley will star as the Hood, the movie's evil international master criminal, Working Title Films said Friday. The movie follows the Tracy family and their top-secret International Rescue organization. They travel around the world carrying out covert missions with the Thunderbirds, a set of five vehicles ranging from a rocket to a space station.

Working Title also revealed the first details of the movie's plot, which will see Kingsley's character invade Tracy Island, the secret base and home of International Rescue and the Thunderbirds, in the hope of using them for his own evil needs. The Tracy family will be headed by Bill Paxton, who will play Jeff Tracy, the father of the family of five sons, Virgil, John, Gordon, Scott and Alan.

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