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Landis reveals Burke and Hare casting
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... considering it was a Scottish production. The sad thing too was that it was labelled as a comedy, and I had high hopes for the script to tell the real story. However we're going to see this comedy come out before then and any chance that the Scottish production had is gone, who wants to see a second comedy about Burke and Hare after John Landis has tackled it? Wasted too much time it would seem and the moment is lost. Back to the film in hand though, and the casting news through Bloody Disgusting of Simon Pegg and David Tennant is exciting. They are a great couple of actors ...
Tennant, Pegg, Landis Team For "Burke"
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... David Tennant (TV's "Doctor Who") and Simon Pegg ("Star Trek," 'Shaun of the Dead") are teaming for the lead roles in the period comedy "Burke and Hare" for Ealing Studios according to an announcement at the Spooky Empire convention this weekend in Florida reports Bloody Disgusting. ...
Tennant and Pegg Are ‘Burke and Hare’
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... one of the two leading roles. Which is fantastic. And now, according to Bloody Disgusting, David Tennant has signed on to be the other one of the murderous duo. Which is double fantastic. ...
Simon Pegg and David Tennant to snatch bodies in Burke and Hare?
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... While his brutal love letter to the English folk tale An American Werewolf in London nears its 30th anniversary John Landis is preparing a similarly gruesome tale to tell, and tonight we’ve learned from Bloody Disgusting that outgoing Doctor Who David Tennant is joining Hollywood’s favourite Brit Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare. ...
David Tennant Joins Burke And Hare
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... Everyone’s favourite Doctor Who, actor David Tennant will be joining Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare according to Bloody Disgusting. The film, which tells the story of two of Britain’s most infamous grave robbers, will be directed by “American Werewolf in London” director, John Landis. ...
David Tennant Joins Simon Pegg in John Landis' Burke and Hare
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... that Simon Pegg would be taking on a lead role in John Landis' forthcoming feature project Burke and Hare, the true story of Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who murdered and sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. Though there was some uncertainty as to whether Pegg was locked into the picture, it has since been confirmed that Pegg will indeed taking on the role of Burke, and now Bloody Disgusting reports that ...
David Tennant joins Burke And Hare
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... immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who, it was claimed, murdered 17 victims between 1827 and 1828 and sold their victims' corpses to the Edinburgh Medical College for students to practice dissection. According to Bloody Disgusting, Landis announced the new cast member this weekend at a convention, and we couldn't be happier. We were already looking forward to this one, and with Tennant aboard, it should be great. [Source: Bloody Disgusting] Pegg and Tennant as a criminal team! Sound ...
David Tennant And Simon Pegg To Star In John Landis's BURKE AND HARE!
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... here... According to Bloody-Disgusting , John Landis has announced that David Tennant, aka "The Tenth Doctor", will join Simon Pegg in BURKE AND HARE! Pegg and Tennant will star as the infamous duo who supplied a British medical school with cadavers they either harvested from graves or murdered themselves. Variations on the story have been told in Val Lewton/Robert Wise's classic THE BODY SNATCHER and Freddie Francis's solid THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS. Landis's version will be based on a screenplay by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, whose previous credits include the ...
Ian McKellen Believes He Won't Be In 'Magneto'; David Tennant Joins Horror Comedy, 'Burke & Hare'
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... - Bloody Disgusting had a writer at the 'Spooky Empire' convention in Florida over the weekend, where John Landis announced that retiring "Doctor Who" star David Tennant will pair with ...
