Ripper Killings Remake on the Way

Production Weekly is reporting that filmmaker David Ondaatje will be remaking The Lodger. The silent film was originally filmed by Alfred Hitchcock which was based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Lowndes. The film is basically a fictional retelling of the Ripper Killings.

According to the site, Ondaatje's contemporary adaptation of "The Lodger" will have two converging plotlines: the first centered around the relationship between a paranoid landlord and her tenant coinciding with a spat of grisly neighborhood murders: and the second involving the personal and professional struggles of a troubled detective as he tries to catch the elusive killer.

Already highly stressed by tensions in his personal life, Detective Chandler Manners must now track a maniacal killer who is emulating the Jack the Ripper murders. Worse, Chandler is beginning to suspect that he might have sent the wrong man to the death house some seven years ago. Now, with the help of his new rookie partner, Street Wilkenson, Chandler is trying to track the culprit before he strikes again, but the case takes an even more bizarre turn when he himself ends up the prime suspect in the case.