Shooting was wrapped up in fairly brisk fashion, with Spielberg presiding over just 32 days of filming before wrapping in March 2009. Jackson was on set for the first week, but with work on The Lovely Bones calling him back to New Zealand, was forced to innovate to make his presence felt.

“Steven would be on set, and Peter would be in New Zealand, via iChat, watching the shooting,” said Simon Pegg. “So if he had anything to add, this voice would come over the tannoy… ‘hello guys it’s Peter’!” A little disconcerting at first then, but apparently it worked a treat.

“Steven and Peter work so well together,” he said. “With two big directors like that you could be forgiven for thinking their egos would clash…but impossibly, it worked!”

So far so good then, but if filming has been completed for over a year, how much longer are we going to have to wait to see the quiff-tastic reporter up on the silver screen? Well, therein lies the rub we’re afraid…