Tennant in Burke+Hare

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

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…

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Eric Walkuski

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