David Tennant Cast in Chew Comic Adaptation

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It has been revealed that our very own David Tennant, who played the energetic, sand-shoe wearing Tenth incarnation of our favourite Time Lord, has been cast in the animated feature adaptation of the popular comic series, Chew, due for release later this year.

Chew, written by John Layman and illustrated by Rob Guillory, is a comic series based on the exploits of detective Tony Chu, a man who has a dark secret. Tony is a “cibopath”. What does that mean? In layman’s terms this means that he can discern psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It means that he’s a great detective as long as he doesn’t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to find out who did it and why. In his line of work he has to do some pretty weird things and now the government knows of Tony’s secret.

David Tennant will be voicing the detective’s mentor-turned-villain, Mason Savoy, in the new film which is attracting great interest with Steven Yuen (The Walking Dead) and Felicia Day (The Guild, Buffy, Supernatural) already on board. Layman says:

“The cartoon is going to be a direct adaptation of the first [graphic novel], which introduces and really focuses on the relationship between Tony Chu and Mason Savoy… I can’t express how awesome it is to be there in the recording sessions, being there as the words you wrote to be printed on a page are brought to life in an entirely different way. Especially when it’s being done by an actor the caliber of Tennant.”

This is an exciting time for our Tenth Doctor with this new role adding to David’s recent spate of villainous roles with the announcement earlier this year that he will be appearing in the Marvel universe as villain Zebediah Killgrave, or The Purple Man, in the upcoming Netflix series A.K.A Jessica Jones speculated to premiere later this year.

In the wake of these announcements, here’s to more news from our favourite Tenth Doctor in his journeys beyond the Whoniverse.

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