Tennant in Burke+Hare
Oct. 12, 2009
All you Brits out there (and some of us Yankees) can feel free to piss your pants in excitement over this casting announcement for John Landis' BURKE AND HARE. We already knew that Simon Pegg was attached to the flick; now we know who will be joining him in his macabre adventures: DAVID TENNANT.
Many of you may be going "Who-wha?" in reaction to that name, but some of you will recognize that Tennant played DOCTOR WHO on the BBC's immortal sci-fi show. Not ever having seen a single episode of the series, I have no real opinion on Tennant, but he's seemingly accumulated quite the star status across the pond...
The film will tell the true story of William Burke and William Hare, serial killers who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.
So you've got "Shaun", "Doctor Who", and the director of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON all collaborating on a twisted horror/comedy. Can we all agree that this may very well be the must-see movie of 2010?
Spilled Blood: To read about the real Burke and Hare murders, head on over HERE.
12:16AM on 10/13/2009