Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an interesting little tidbit about the next flick from one Mr. John Landis. Dread-Central spoke with Landis over the weekend and he dropped a bit about his upcoming flick BURKE AND HARE about a pair of 19th Century murderers who sold the bodies of their victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.

One, it's great news that Landis has another feature in the works (I greatly enjoyed his documentaries MR. WARMTH and SLASHER, but I've missed his comic and horror voice in narrative filmmaking) and two, it apparently will have one Mr. Simon Pegg as the lead.

John Landis and Simon Pegg seem to be a match made in heaven. I'd love to see Landis make a big come back. For some of the iffy features he's put out in the last 15 years the dude still made some of my favorites... KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, THE BLUES BROTHERS, COMING TO AMERICA, THREE AMIGOS, TRADING PLACES, ANIMAL HOUSE, SPIES LIKE US and Motherfuckin' THRILLER... when you've put out that many great flicks there should be a fund to keep you producing material just in the hopes that the magic he's produced is recaptured a few times more.

What do you folks think about the pairing of Landis and Pegg? I wonder who will play the second lead? As much as I love Pegg and Nick Frost together, I'd like to save their next pairing (after PAUL) for Edgar Wright. Plus I'd love to see Pegg's chemistry with someone else. Who could hold the screen with Simon? Thoughts?

-Quint
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