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Gary Oldman is to play a creepy taxidermist in new crime drama Monster Butler.

Malcolm McDowell will star in the film, based on the true story of Roy Fontaine aka Archibald Hall, who was a bisexual jewel thief, con man and serial killer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gary has signed up to play Wiggy, a taxidermist with anger issues and some shady businesses on the side, who teams up with Fontaine on a number of crimes.

Lord Of The Rings star Dominic Monaghan and The Borgias' Joanne Whalley have also signed up to the film.

The film will chronicle Fontaine's journey from a petty thief as a teenager to a serial killer as his crimes lead him on a descent into darkness. Until he died in 2002, he was the oldest person serving a whole life sentence in prison.

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