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22nd August 2008

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C4 adapts Peace's Ripper quartet

09.07.08

Channel 4 is producing a trilogy of films based on three of the four books in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet (Serpent's Tail), which revolve around the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

The three crime films are being produced by Revolutions Films, reports Variety magazine, in a project that is budgeted at $10m. Directed by three different directors, they will adapted from Peace's Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three, with elements from Peace's second book, Nineteen Seventy Seven, will be woven into the three films.

Tony Grisoni, who wrote the screenplay for “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", has adapted the books.

The films, commissioned by C4 drama head Liza Marshall, are being made as a TV series, with a UK theatrical release likely to follow.

Variety

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