Yorkshire Ripper Headed to the Screen

Over a seven year span beginning in 1974 the Yorkshire Ripper otherwise known as Peter Suticliffe murdered 13 women before his capture in 1981. This event spawned a numerous amount of books to be written about him including David Pearce's "Red Riding Quartet". Today Variety reports that UK pubcaster Channel 4 will be prepping a triology of films based on those novels.

The three films will be made on a total budget of $10 million with a seperate director for each film. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas scribe will adapt the books into three films and will weave the second book Nineteen Seventy Seven into the other three. Julian Jarrold will direct “Nineteen Seventy Four,” James Marsh will direct “Nineteen Eighty” and Anand Tucker will direct “Nineteen Eighty Three.”

In the UK the films will be televised and then possibly play theatrically. Overseas however the films will be packaged strictly as a theatrical run so we may be able to see all of them on the silver screen. Keep it here for more.