John Landis, director of  ‘An American Werewolf in London’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video is working on his first feature film in over ten years.

Simon Pegg will star in the horror comedy ‘Burke and Hare,’ and it has just been announced that we will be joined on screen by Isla Fisher, Andy Serkis and Tom Wilkinson.

‘Burke and Hare’ is based on the true story of a pair of 19th Century serial killers in Edinburgh, Scotland. Irish immigrants, William Burke and William Hare, were grave robbers who lucratively sold corpses to anatomy lecturer Dr. Robert Knox for dissection. They eventually discovered that they could actually collect more bodies if they killed people rather limit themselves to digging them up and are believed to have committed 17 murders between the years 1827 and 1828.

Simon Pegg will play Burke and Andy Serkis is Hare. Isla Fisher is reportedly to play Burke’s girlfriend, whose name was Helen M’Dougal. Wilkinson will play Knox.

Landis’s filmography includes ‘National Lampoon’s Animal House’ (1978), ‘The Blues Brothers’ (1980), ‘Trading Places’ (1983), ‘¡Three Amigos!’ (1986) and ‘Blues Brothers 2000′ (1998). His last feaure film was ‘Susan’s Plan’ in 1998.

Fisher most recently appeared in Disney’s ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic.’

Serkis, who is best known for his role as Gollum in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy was shortlisted for a best actor Bafta nomination this week for his portrayal of singer Ian Dury in ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.’

Wilkinson stars in the forthcoming Polanski thriller ‘The Ghost Writer,’ and recently completed work on Michel Gondry’s ‘The Green Hornet.’

Simon Pegg is best known for his roles in Zombie spoof ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Star Trek,’ in which he played Scotty.

‘Burke and Hare’ begins shooting at the end of January in Edinburgh and London.

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