Andy Serkis Joins Simon Pegg In John Landis’ ‘Burke & Hare’

Simon Pegg and David Tennant were set to star in John Landis’ “Burke And Hare,” but there’s been a last minute change-up thanks to a heads-up twitter post by Pegg (that has since been taken down). Tennant is out and Andy Serkis is taking his place. We don’t know that much about this project frankly (or this writer doesn’t), but Serkis is awesome, so this is probably a win-win for everyone, no?

The story is evidently about legendary corpse-snatchers who sold their grave-robbed bodies to Scottish medical schools in the 19th Century. That sounds kind of great actually. Our only concern: when was the last time John Landis made a decent film? The 1980s? We’re pretty positive the correct answer is “Coming to America” in 1988 unless you somehow think “Oscar” in 1991 with Sly Stallone was an unheralded classic.

Pegg and Serkis presumably had some scenes together in Peter Jackson/Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.” Let’s hope the mo-cap on that one isn’t as useless as what Robert Zemeckis has been doing of late. As you were. [Empire]