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AFM '08: Landis to Direct Graverobbing Comedy

November 6, 2008


Ealing Studios tapped John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) to direct Burke and Hare for Fragile Films.

Written by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, Burke and Hare is based on a true story and follows two 19th-century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing dead bodies for an Edinburgh medical school.

Casting has begun and principal photography is expected to begin in early 2009 with Barnaby Thompson producing.

Landis is also attached to the William Gaines biopic Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines. Read what Landis had to say about that film in our chat earlier this year here.

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Posted by: ico on November 6, 2008 at 17:59:42

Graverobbing is hilarious!


Posted by: Mark on December 29, 2008 at 12:35:06

Hope they make it a very dark comedy and don't lose the drama of this real life horror tale. Burke & Hare were never graverobbers. The first body they sold died of old age and owed Hare money for rent. The second was old and sick and dying but was hanging on so they helped him on his way.... another of Hares tenants. The rest were tenants and locals who they murdered. Dr Knox liked them because their bodies were very fresh and not dug up corpses. He 'believed' they stumbled across bodies in the street who had just 'died'.


Posted by: HorrorCat999 on November 3, 2009 at 20:24:56

wonder why they think a true-crime case is a comedy...otherwise, they have their rights, and as long as people enjoy it, its what matters. But something about it being a comedy doesn't feel right.


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