As hoped, Isla is attending the world premiere of Burke & Hare in London tonight! This is her first major public appearance in over a year. She looks gorgeous in a little red and black dress with a black jacket and her dark red hair down. She posed on the red carpet with her co-stars Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg. Below are a few preview photos, and I will add full coverage (photos/news tidbits/quotes/videos/etc.) tomorrow!
It’s great to see Isla on the red carpet again!
As we know, Burke & Hare is released in the UK next Friday (in time for Halloween!), and a new TV spot is now airing on UK TV screens. View the TV spot below, and read on for a new clip (which unfortunately does not feature Isla).
• Burke and Hare (2010) > TV Spot #1 Screencaptures x9
I’ve updated the Gallery with new stills, posters and trailer screencaps from Isla’s upcoming movie Burke & Hare. The film is to be released in the UK next week, so new material is slowing leaking out, including the 2 UK posters I’ve just added and the still.
Hopefully we’ll get more Burke & Hare goodies next week, and with any luck, Miss Fisher will be at the world premiere in London on Monday!
EDIT: Another still has popped up! Plus, the film now has an official Facebook page at facebook.com/BurkeAndHareMovie.
• Burke and Hare > Stills x2
• Burke and Hare > Posters x2 more
• Burke and Hare > Trailer #1 Screencaptures x28
The world premiere of Isla’s new movie Burke & Hare will be in London on October 25th 2010! No word on whether Isla will attend, but she lives in London with her family, so there may be a chance.
Visit Sky Movies for a chance to win tickets to the premiere!
Burke and Hare will be released across the UK on October 29th. The film does not have a US release date yet.
Take John Landis, Simon Pegg and the true tale of two murderous labourers – and what do you get? ‘Burke and Hare’, the darkest Ealing comedy yet.
On a grey, wet morning in February, the director John Landis is sitting in front of a monitor in the stables of Knole House, Kent, gripping a can of Diet Coke. He’s talking – or rather, shouting – over the opening titles of his new film, Burke & Hare. It’s a retelling of the notorious tale of the eponymous Irish labourers who discovered the profit in supplying cadavers to ambitious anatomists and started murdering people to keep up with demand.
Landis says the film is a romantic comedy. ‘So we fade up to this shot of Edinburgh Castle,’ he begins, ‘although there’ll be lots of smoke and s—, and it says “Edinborough” or whatever, 1828. There’ll be lots of Scottish voices, saying things in Scottish accents. Lots of activity. Lots of arguing.’ A little boy darts across the screen: ‘There’s Oliver Twist making a guest appearance. Continuous action. Appropriate sounds. Directed by me. Cut, and then on we go.’
Landis swivels off his chair and stalks into the courtyard, which, filling in for an Edinburgh marketplace, is brimming with mud, vegetables, cows and glum extras, and is soundtracked with the honking of a flock of caged geese. ‘Why aren’t you following me?’ he shouts. ‘Come with me!’
Landis, whose previous films include The Blues Brothers and Trading Places is effervescent. This is the first feature film he’s made in a decade. But he despises the idea that this is a comeback. ‘I keep reading this thing – “he hasn’t worked in 10 years”. Bulls—, I’ve been working constantly! I guess I haven’t made a big regular movie. And people will say whatever they want and they always do, so who cares?’
While at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, /Film ran across this early poster art for the John Landis horror comedy Burke & Hare. Isla is featured in it too!
The film is based on the real-life exploits of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who killed at least 17 people in Edinburgh in 1827-8, the film may not hew too closely to the tone and severity of actual events. The movie stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis, and co-stars Tim Curry, Isla Fisher, Jessica Hynes, Tom Wilkinson, Ronnie Corbett and Bill Bailey. Landis, whose filmography includes An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Spies Like Us, ¡Three Amigos!, Coming To America, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller, hasn’t directed a feature film in over a decade.
Simon Pegg is set to make horror funny again. THR reports that the Shaun of the Dead star has joined the black comedy Burke and Hare, which follows William Burke and William Hare, two 19th-century grave robbers and murderers who got rich selling the corpses of their victims. Andy Serkis will play Hare, Pegg will play Burke. The movie is not a remake of 1971’s Burke and Hare, which played the events for more dramatic effect.
Pegg has been using his Twitter account to update fans of the movie’s progress, which has already begun rehearsals.
1st day of Burke & Hare rehearsals at Ealing Studios where I once held off a legion of zombies with an old Winchester rifle. Happy days.
Pegg has been busy finishing up the comedy Paul, about two comic book geeks who meet an alien while driving across America, as well as meeting with Burke and Hare cast.