Pegg set for Irish murderer role

Simon Pegg is expected to play a mass murderer in a new movie.

The ‘Shaun of the Dead’ star has reportedly signed up to star in ‘Burke and Hare’, a black comedy based on the true story of Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare who sold the corpses of their 17 murder victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection in 1827 and 1828.