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Synopsis:
The Yorkshire Ripper was one of the most brutal real-life crime stories of the 1970s and ‘80s as killer Peter Sutcliffe cut a swathe through the country, murdering 13 women. He was caught in 1981 and sentenced to several life sentences, but the police hunt for him was criticized for corruption.
Now Channel 4 is revisiting the story, based on three of the four books in British novelist David Peace’s ('The Damned United') “Red Riding Quartet,” (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three).
Channel 4 has hired three directors for all three films. James Marsh ('Man on Wire') will helm ' Nineteen Eighty', based on the book. The films will work as a trilogy and will appear on the Channel 4 (UK) before getting a cinematic release. Regular Terry Gilliam collaborator Tony Grisoni ('Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas') wrote the script adapting the three Peace books with elements from Peace’s second book -- “Nineteen Seventy Seven” woven into all three films.
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