The first trailer arrives for John Landis’ Burke And Hare, the forthcoming black comedy starring Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg…
Any film that coaxes An American Werewolf In London director John Landis back into big screen filmmaking is sure to pique our interest, and Ealing Studios' Burke And Hare, which stars Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg as the titular 19th century grave robbers turned murderers, sounds like a good match.
Indeed, the criminals' story has already been adapted several times, perhaps the most memorable being 1945's The Body Snatcher, which starred Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
Landis' Burke And Hare, if the trailer's anything to go by, is a broad comedy more in the tradition of the Carry On movies than the rather more subtle Ealing comedies like The Ladykillers.
The trailer displays a welcome array of cameo actors, including Stephen Merchant (sporting a handsome powdered wig), Paul Whitehouse in a stovepipe hat, and an engagingly odd glimpse of Ronnie Corbett as a diminutive soldier.
Burke And Hare is due for release on 29 October. And here's that trailer...