Carlyle and Firth cast for "The Meat Trade"

According to Horror-Movies.ca, Robert Carlyle and Colin Firth will join "The Meat Trade" with Antonia Bird at the helm. The screenplay was written by the madman behind Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh.

Set in Edinburgh, the gothic horror comedy is a contemporary reworking of the crimes of the 19th century bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. This 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.

Yummy, sounds like a winner to me. I can't wait to see which way they sway with this movie. Hopefully it will be more of a dark comedy than a "Vampire in Brooklyn" type film.

Source: Variety