The first trailer for John Landis’s Burke & Hare has hit the net from Ealing Studios! The film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the two titular men, real-life body snatchers from 19th century Ireland who started selling bodies to science. When demand got higher than expected and they realized how much money could be made in the business, the duo started creating their own bodies. Perfect material for a comedy!
Other actors appearing include Christopher Lee, Tim Curry, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, and one Jessica Hynes- yes, we’ll be able to get that Spaced reunion we’ve all been waiting for.
As exciting as this film is with all this sheer comedic talent behind it, the trailer unfortunately isn’t all that. It’s one of those trailers that seems to have no faith in the source material, trying to cram as many jokes in the thing as possible and make it look zany rather than just giving you a taste of what to expect. We’re left with jokes that are doubtlessly better with a longer setup. Still, it’s a new John Landis comedy, his first feature film in 12 years (longer if you don’t consider Susan’s Plan one of his films) and you know you’re not going to miss it.
Burke & Hare comes out in the UK on October 29th, but there’s no plans for US distribution just yet.
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A truly terrible narration. Why couldn't they have had Christopher lee narrate it?
Jesus Christ what is it about American filmmakers and their complete inability to tell when an actor is using a terrible, terrible attempt at an Irish/Scottish accent. Fucking hell Pegg's terrible accent for Scotty in Star Trek was better than this. Awful awful awful accents.
Jim – what American component are you even talking about…..this film doesn't even has US distribution yet……..
Ronnie Corbett!
If there's anything I can't stand, it's armchair linguists. Jim, I'm sure you have no idea what you're talking about.
Looks like this was cut by the same company that cuts every foreign indy comedy ever made. Go to any Landmark theater and half of the previews seem just like this. I'll totally check out the movie though.
Hey Jim. They were Irish not Scottish. They just did it in Ireland. Some of us are related to one of them. 😐 Ya.
Edinburgh is in Scotland, not Ireland.
Stop bickering like 8 year old girls, you snaggle-toothed limey cunts! This is a moment to celebrate! I can hardly wait to see it at the Alamo Drafthouse when it gets distribution over here in the good ol' US of A. God bless John Landis.
I remember once some armchair linguist cunt wrote a review talking about the terrible Scottish accent my friend used in a movie. Of course the actor was really Scottish and actually used his real accent. So shut the fuck up Jim, no one cares.
#8: It's set in Scotland, but the characters are Irish.
Looks good. And even if the accents are shit, I don't really care. As long as it's not grating or make them sound like assholes. Basically as long as you don't do a Keanu with the accent, I'm alright with it.
Fucking fat asses.
On a completely unrelated note, this movie does look interesting
Bill Bailey! Paul Whitehouse! Stephen Merchant! Chock full of comedy talent, I only hope they get the screen time to do something with it…..Still, a definite watch for me.
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