David Tennant to star in a horror flick, pass me my smelling salts!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
Greetings and Salutations.
Apologies that Musings has been a little quiet this week, unfortunately my ‘meat’ life has been interfering with my ‘Virtual’ life, which is becoming increasingly irritating! However enough of my melancholy, some delightful news came out during the week that I am flushing and glowing about which I must share with you all.
To start things off confession time, it may shock some of you, but I have an extreme weakness for the dashing Scotsman David Tennant (AKA Dr Who). This has been a result of what I have professed in the past, my joyful straddling of both the horror and sci-fi genre’s. I loved him as the quirky and erudite Doctor and when I heard him interviewed on a BBC late night talk show, speaking in his native Scottish accent (he’s not from Glasgow, but we won’t hold that against him) I went weak at the knees.
Tennant has appeared in not only four seasons of the new incarnation of Dr Who, he also appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Barty Crouch Jnr, you know the one who kept flicking his tongue out like a snake, or was it just me who noticed that? I could go on gushing, however lets get to the delightful new shall we?
The crew over at First Showing released a story this week that Tennant is joining the cast of the film ‘Burke and Hare‘. Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead fame) came on board to play Burke in August and Tennant is apparently secured to play the role of Hare. They films synopsis is as follows:
“Based on the true story about the famous graverobbers, ‘Burke And Hare’ follows the hapless exploits of these two men as they fall into the highly profitable business of providing cadavers for the medical fraternity in Nineteenth Century Edinburgh, then the centre of medical learning. The one thing they were short of was bodies.”
The infamous two apparently murdered 17 people in order to keep their business running, stocking local medical schools with cadavers to train budding physicians.
To say I am excited that David Tennant is making a foray into the horror genre is an understatement. Pass me my smelling salts and put on my relaxation CD of the Tardis humming!
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Films
9 Responses to “David Tennant to star in a horror flick, pass me my smelling salts!”
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The Divemistress Says:
October 17th, 2009 at 11:16 amGood news, indeed! He’s the reason why I’m getting over my problem with Dr Who to watch Dr Who.
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Ms Harker Says:
October 17th, 2009 at 6:05 pmI’ll be interested to see if you survive the Catherine Tate season, sadly I didn’t, no matter how hot David is, I just couldn’t deal with her. Which is funny as I love her sketch comedy!
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Emma Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:57 pmDavid can’t be in a horror movie! It just wouldn’t be right for him! Doctor Who never appealed to me until David came into it- I got really possessive of him, as if he couldn’t belong to anyone but me. Now, I guess I’ll have to learn that I’m not the only one in love with him…
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tish Says:
January 29th, 2010 at 12:13 amdavid tennant is so sexy
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Charleyy Says:
February 15th, 2010 at 5:06 amI think that David, is a very outstanding actor and adapts to his characters in a very emotive way so no matter what film he participates in he will be amzing.
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scarletmeadow Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 5:40 amsorry to disappoint. i just went to imdb.com to search the release date for ‘Burke & Hare’ and, unfortunately, the role you said would be played by David Tennant, will be played by Andy Serkis.
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Ms Harker Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 8:15 amOh no! That is disappointing, I wonder why Tenant pulled out?
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Jane King Says:
June 10th, 2010 at 3:59 amI sooooooo love David Tennant!! I’m trying to get my mum to buy every sigle film with him in it!!!!!! I looove him!!!!!!!!!
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mary B. Says:
August 21st, 2010 at 4:50 amEEeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeEEEeeee!!!! (ect. Ect.) I love David tenant Eee Hee!
