BBC.co.uk reported before the weekend and Colin Firth and Robert Carlyle are set to star in the film, The Meat Trade, penned by Trainspotting author Irvin Welsh. This is Welsh's first crack at writing a straight screenplay.
The film will be a horror comedy "inspired by the crimes of 19th-century bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. The notorious duo made a living robbing graves to provide doctors with cadavers for experimentation. When the supply of corpses dried up, they started killing tramps".
The film will be helmed by director Antonia Bird, who has already worked with Carlyle on Ravenous, so familiarity with the horror genre is alredy established.
Wasn't there a film made about these two guys years ago? I think I remeber a Fangoria article about the director of that film or something.
I love Raveonous...It is an underrated and under-seen film...
they say this morning that carlyle is lined-up to play in a film about some crappy british gangster. who do they want to act alongside him? liam gallagher of oasis. oh dear.
It's actually written by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. It's described on other sites as a black comedy update of the Burke & Hare story.
Irvine is the best!!! Ciao dall'Italia