Fans of the original Fright Night have to be geeking-out over Disney’s remake of the fang-tasticly fun 1985 vampire film. According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision Blog, David Tennant (Doctor Who, pictured left) will play the overmatched vampire expert portrayed in the original by Roddy McDowall, and McLovin himself (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is on board as Evil Ed, the nerdy friend who finds himself vulnerable to the neighborhood blood-sucker. With paper-boy faced Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) set to star as the paranoid hero, and Colin Farrell cast as the neck-biter next door, director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) has a remake that just might not suck.

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David Tennant, the former Doctor Who, has been told that his American television drama has been axed after one episode.

After failing to convince enough voters to back Gordon Brown with his election broadcast, David Tennant has suffered a further blow to his amour-propre.

The former Doctor Who hoped that a pilot episode of a legal drama called Rex Is Not Your Lawyer would be taken up as a series by NBC and it would turn him into an American television star as big as Hugh Laurie. Alas, NBC executives have quietly decided to shelve the project.

Tennant had played a lawyer who couldn’t appear in court because of panic attacks. The actor failed to make the first night of Hamlet in 2008, but a bad back rather than a panic attack was given as the reason.

Jonathan Miller, the polymath, said the RSC’s decision to give Tennant the title role amounted to “celebrity casting”.

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Incredibly sorry David, but we look forward to seeing you in other projects!

David Tennant long ago won the hearts of theatre audiences with a spate of laudable Shakespearean roles on the biggest British stages.

And when he turned his sights to television, he instantly amassed an avid following when he was cast as Doctor Who. Yet what has so far eluded the Scottish actor is a breakthrough role in a feature film. Now, that is set to change. Tennant, one of the most recognisable actors on the stage and small screen – he was named the most popular actor by the National Television Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008 – has been cast in his first lead role opposite fellow Scot, Kelly MacDonald, who is a well-established face in Hollywood.

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DAVID TENNANT’S tenth Doctor Who has been voted as the British screen character film fans would most like to see regenerate into the next Prime Minister, conquering the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and James Bond.

To mark the general election, film and TV subscription service Lovefilm polled over 2,000 members to discover which screen character has the traits best suited to run the country.

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