DOCTOR WHO's David Tennant Lends Voice to CHEW Comic Adaptation

According to The Hollywood Reporter, DOCTOR WHO star David Tennant will lend his voice to the new feature adaptation of Image Comics' CHEW.

Tennant joins WALKING DEAD's Steven Yeun and THE GUILD's Felicia Day in the cast.

CHEW, with a script by one of the comic's creators, John Layman, follows "a detective (Yeun) who is a 'cibopath', a person who gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats, and is set in a world where bird meats are illegal after bird flu killed millions of Americans." Day will play Yeun's love interest, "a food critic who can write about food so precisely the reader actually feels like they are tasting it."

Tennant will take over the role Robin Williams was originally set to play -- 'Mason Savoy', who is Yeun's "mentor-turned-villain".

Tennant will soon appear in Netflix's new series JESSICA JONES and has REDS AND GRAYS, METANOIA and I FEEL FINE in his big screen queue. He currently stars in the BBC series BROADCHURCH and has also appeared on TV in W1A, GRACEPOINT, and, of course, the long-running sci-fi show DOCTOR WHO.

He is an extensive stage actor in the UK with numerous Shakespeare credits, his most recent being the RSC's RICHARD II, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST and HAMLET, as well as MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING in the West End.