Burke and Hare--John Landis, Simon Pegg, and David Tennant
10-15-09, 03:53 PM
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Burke and Hare--John Landis, Simon Pegg, and David Tennant
Landis, Pegg, and Tennant this has potential.
After spending several years shooting episodic television and documentaries and turning down offers to make movies that he would not pay to see, Landis is “thrilled to be working in the UK again on a quality project”. He promises that the tale of the early 19th-century serial murders will be shot “extremely faithfully but as a romantic comedy in the great Ealing black-comedy tradition.”
BD's David Harley writes in that David Tennant, star of "Dr Who", has been cast alongside Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare, as was announced by director John Landis this weekend at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, FL. Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. The screenplay was penned by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17658
No confirmation but a Bill Nighy fan site reports that Nighy, John Cleese and Minnie Driver will also star.
http://www.billnighy.info/2009/08/28...minnie-driver/
After spending several years shooting episodic television and documentaries and turning down offers to make movies that he would not pay to see, Landis is “thrilled to be working in the UK again on a quality project”. He promises that the tale of the early 19th-century serial murders will be shot “extremely faithfully but as a romantic comedy in the great Ealing black-comedy tradition.”
BD's David Harley writes in that David Tennant, star of "Dr Who", has been cast alongside Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare, as was announced by director John Landis this weekend at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, FL. Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. The screenplay was penned by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17658
No confirmation but a Bill Nighy fan site reports that Nighy, John Cleese and Minnie Driver will also star.
http://www.billnighy.info/2009/08/28...minnie-driver/
10-15-09, 04:26 PM
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Re: Burke and Hare--John Landis, Simon Pegg, and David Tennant
I really dug The Doctor and the Devils. Not convinced another film needs to be made of this story, but I do like the prinicipals involved.
10-15-09, 05:42 PM
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More important, does this mean that John Landis is the only person on the planet who would pay to see The Stupids?
10-16-09, 02:54 PM
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10-16-09, 04:47 PM
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Landis, Pegg, and Tennant this has potential.
After spending several years shooting episodic television and documentaries and turning down offers to make movies that he would not pay to see, Landis is “thrilled to be working in the UK again on a quality project”. He promises that the tale of the early 19th-century serial murders will be shot “extremely faithfully but as a romantic comedy in the great Ealing black-comedy tradition.”
BD's David Harley writes in that David Tennant, star of "Dr Who", has been cast alongside Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare, as was announced by director John Landis this weekend at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, FL. Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. The screenplay was penned by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17658
No confirmation but a Bill Nighy fan site reports that Nighy, John Cleese and Minnie Driver will also star.
http://www.billnighy.info/2009/08/28...minnie-driver/
After spending several years shooting episodic television and documentaries and turning down offers to make movies that he would not pay to see, Landis is “thrilled to be working in the UK again on a quality project”. He promises that the tale of the early 19th-century serial murders will be shot “extremely faithfully but as a romantic comedy in the great Ealing black-comedy tradition.”
BD's David Harley writes in that David Tennant, star of "Dr Who", has been cast alongside Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare, as was announced by director John Landis this weekend at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, FL. Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. The screenplay was penned by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17658
No confirmation but a Bill Nighy fan site reports that Nighy, John Cleese and Minnie Driver will also star.
http://www.billnighy.info/2009/08/28...minnie-driver/
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After spending several years shooting episodic television and documentaries and turning down offers to make movies that he would not pay to see, Landis is “thrilled to be working in the UK again on a quality project”.
11-04-09, 03:16 PM
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Some huge news out of this morning's AFM in Santa Monica as Bloody Disgusting has learned that the incredible Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters) will be joining Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), David Tennant ("Doctor Who") and Bill Nighy (Underworld films) in the John Landis dircted black comedy Burke and Hare. Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17962
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17962
11-04-09, 03:17 PM
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The casting of Dan Aykroyd hasn't constituted "huge news" in 20 years. 
(still cool, though)
(still cool, though)
11-04-09, 05:21 PM
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And while waiting for this ...... rewatched THE BODY SNATCHER, Boris Karloff classic directed by Robert Wise.
02-11-10, 09:24 AM
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David Tennant is out, but many others have been added to the cast of BURKE AND HARE.
So far we have: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, and a small part for Stephen Merchant.
Now prepare to geek out to the new names joining the cast: Jessica Hynes (SPACED, SHAUN OF THE DEAD), Bill Bailey (HOT FUZZ), Reece Shearsmith (SHAUN OF THE DEAD), Christopher Lee, Tim Curry, Ronnie Corbett, Hugh Bonneville (NOTTING HILL), David Schofield (GLADIATOR, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), Allan Corduner (FRED CLAUS), and Michael Smiley (SPACED).
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=30712
Got to work with the lovely Jenny Agutter yesterday. One of three American Werewolf cast members in the flick. This picture's a nerd farm!
http://twitter.com/simonpegg
So far we have: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, and a small part for Stephen Merchant.
Now prepare to geek out to the new names joining the cast: Jessica Hynes (SPACED, SHAUN OF THE DEAD), Bill Bailey (HOT FUZZ), Reece Shearsmith (SHAUN OF THE DEAD), Christopher Lee, Tim Curry, Ronnie Corbett, Hugh Bonneville (NOTTING HILL), David Schofield (GLADIATOR, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), Allan Corduner (FRED CLAUS), and Michael Smiley (SPACED).
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=30712
Got to work with the lovely Jenny Agutter yesterday. One of three American Werewolf cast members in the flick. This picture's a nerd farm!
http://twitter.com/simonpegg
02-11-10, 10:07 AM
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That makes three of us. She's even hotter in Logan's run. There's some early 70s western that supposedly has plenty of frontal nudity of her but is always a cut version on vhs/dvd.
02-11-10, 04:56 PM
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