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David Peace's bestselling Red Riding quartet of crime novels is to be turned into a film trilogy for Channel 4, starring Sean Bean, Warren Clarke and Paddy Considine. "Red Riding" will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2009 before being broadcast on Channel 4, with future cinema release a possibility.
Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three (Serpent's Tail) are set in 1970s and 80s Yorkshire during the time of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. Serpent's Tail reissued £7.99 paperback editions of the novels with new jackets on 4th September, with tie-in editions yet to be confirmed.
The "Red Riding" television series, written by Tony Grisoni ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") will comprise three 120-minute feature films of Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three, with elements of Nineteen Seventy-Seven woven into all three.
"Red Riding" will be produced by Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom's company Revolution Films. Julian Jarrold ("Brideshead Revisited") will direct the first film, James Marsh ("Man on Wire") the second and Anand Tucker ("Hilary & Jackie") the third.