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Ridley Scott to direct 'Red Riding'
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Ridley Scott may direct Columbia Pictures' remake of the U.K. miniseries "Red Riding," based on four David Peace novels. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Steven Zaillian is in talks to write the screenplay.
Variety says the series focuses on police corruption surrounding the investigation of the disappearance on a group of young girls. The compressed remake will be set in the U.S. rather than Britain.
The last U.K. miniseries to hit the big screen as a remake was "State of Play," a film I really enjoyed, even though I haven't seen the original series yet.
Scott is currently in post-production ...
Ridley Scott Bringing David Peace's RED RIDING To America?
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Beaks here... [image] Everybody's crazy 'bout condensing critically-acclaimed British TV miniseries! After writing up the new trailer for Martin Campbell's EDGE OF DARKNESS update , I clicked over to Variety to find that Ridley Scott and screenwriter Steve Zaillian are in talks with Columbia to streamline Channel 4's five-hour adaptation of David Peace's four RED RIDING novels (NINETEEN SEVENTY-FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN, NINETEEN EIGHTY and NINETEEN EIGHTY-THREE). The narrative is a mostly fictionalized account of the Yorkshire Ripper murders that also delves into the murky morass of police corruption. I haven't watched the series ...
Ridley Scott remaking Red Riding?
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There are some directors who has quite busy development plates. Then there's Ridley Scott, who seems ready to add a Red Riding remake to his overly crowded schedule. Sony has bought the rights to both the miniseries about police corruption and misuse of power - shown over here on Channel 4 - and David Peace's original source novels. While the series will have a US release, Sony wants to take the five-hour plot and have Steven Zaillian (who worked with Scott on American Gangster and Hannibal) squash it down into one film. What? No plans for a trilogy? And it also wants the setting changed from the UK to the ...
Ridley Scott remaking Red Riding Trilogy
Filmstalker —
... that they were getting various releases outside of television, and quite rightly so, but to hear that they are now being remade and probably seeing the story transplanted to a American setting. The Yorkshire Ripper in America? Variety through ...
Ridley Scott takes on ‘Red Riding’ remake
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You may remember that back in March I raved about “Red Riding,” the British TV adaptation of David Peace’s quartet of Yorkshire-set crime novels that IFC will soon be distributing theatrically in the U.S.
Specifically, I flipped for the first installment of the three-film series, Julian Jarrold’s “1974″ — an exquisitely textured mood piece, with vivid turns from Andrew Garfield and Rebecca Hall, that remains one of the best films I’ve seen this year on any size screen.
Six months later, Americans got to see what British critics had been gushing about since the spring (David ...
Ridley Scott to Pointlessly Remake 'Red Riding'; Steve Zaillan To Write.
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Sometimes, words fail us. A little while back, we caught, and loved, "Red Riding," the trilogy of crime thrillers made for Channel 4 in the UK, which will be released theatrically in the US next month through IFC. You can find our original review here, but it was pretty much a flat rave - the films are dense, impossibly dark, beautifully made and brilliantly acted. Now, according to Variety, Ridley Scott and his "American Gangster" scribe Steven Zaillan are reteaming to remake the original trilogy. Scott is ...
Ridley Scott considers RED RIDING
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Director Ridley Scott is considering a run at remaking the RED RIDING trilogy.
The miniseries is a study of power and police corruption framed around the investigation of the disappearance of several young girls. For the pic, the setting will be transferred from Britain to the U.S. The mini clocked in at more than five hours, so Zaillian and Scott have their work cut out for them to compress it into one film. — Variety
Columbia Pictures has picked up rights to the three-part mini-series, which originated in the UK. The studio is in talks with Steve Zaillian (SCHINDLER’S ...
Ridley Scott Remakes "Red Riding"
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Ridley Scott is in negotiations to direct a remake the three-part U.K. miniseries "Red Riding" for Sony Pictures says Variety.
The original, which was based on a four novel series by David Peace, is a study of power and police corruption framed around the investigation of the disappearance of several young girls in a case based on the real life Yorkshire Ripper killings.
All three feature-length parts were shot with different helmers using different cameras - Julian Jarrold ("Brideshead Revisited," "Becoming Jane") helmed the first part using 16mm film, James Marsh ("Man on Wire") the second in 35MM Cinemascope, and Anand Tucker ...
Remake of 'Red Riding' Trilogy Added To Ridley Scott's To-Do List
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The recent UK miniseries "Red Riding" condensed four lengthy crime novels into three feature-length episodes. Now Columbia Pictures wants to squish everything into a single movie, and the studio is looking to Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List") to handle that task, according to Variety.
Columbia is also said to be negotiating with Ridley Scott to direct the adaptation, but it's hard to imagine the "Blade Runner" director having room in his pipeline to commit to anymore films. After he finishes his "Robin Hood" movie, Scott is attached to helm the board ...
Ridley Scott Might Direct Adaptation of RED RIDING
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According to Variety, Columbia Pictures has snagged the rights to adapt one of this year’s Telluride Film Festival breakout hits, Red Riding. A British mini-series comprised of three separate movies (1974, 1980, and 1983), Red Riding was originally broadcast in the UK, and IFC picked up distribution rights and will (hopefully) get the trilogy in theaters in the States sometime in the very near future (fall of 2009).
The trilogy is a slow burn, a dirty study of crime and corruption involving crooked cops and the abduction of several young girls from the ...
Ridley Scott In Talks To Remake ‘Red Riding’
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Red Riding is a mini-series (three movies in total) based on four novels that center around the fictionalized investigation into a series of murders, including those committed by the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer that terrorized the Yorkshire area in England in the ’70s ...
Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian Go RED RIDING
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Columbia has purchased the rights to the novels and British mini-series “Red Riding” about power and police corruption framed around the investigation into the disappearance of several young girls. The studio is negotiating with Ridley Scott to direct the film and with Steve Zaillian to write the screenplay. If they both sign on, ...
Is Red Riding Going to Ridley?
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... surrounding the investigation of abductions of little girls. While it may seem a little daunting to condense that much material into an approximately two-hour film, I'm looking forward to seeing what Scott and Zaillian, who worked together on Hannibal and American Gangster, can pull off.
The remake will be set in the United States as opposed to the United Kingdom. Columbia Pictures has also bought the rights to the original series.
Source: Variety
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Scott, Zaillian May Join “Red Riding” Adaptation
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Reportedly an image from the UK miniseries “Red Riding.”
Variety reports that Columbia Pictures is planning a big screen version of the UK miniseries “Red Riding.” The studio is in talks with Ridley Scott to directing and Steve Zaillian to write the screenplay.
Zaillian would have the real fun stuff to do–the miniseries is an adaptation of four books by David Peace and on TV ran over five hours. I haven’t heard one word about the books or the miniseries, and I don’t have the credentials to shine Zaillian’s shoes. But if it were me I would ignore the miniseries and ...
Ridley Scott Goes Red Riding
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Ridley Scott Goes Red Riding I've been meaning to get around to see the Red Riding trilogy, a series of British films about power and police corruption that center around the disappearance of three young girls. But given that the whole thing is over five hours long, and sounds incredibly grim, you can probably understand why I've been putting it off. And now Ridley Scott is making it so I never have to see it at all! According to Variety , he and Columbia Pictures are planning a remake of the miniseries, with the setting transferred to the U.S. and the five hours somehow ...
RIDLEY SCOTT, STEVE ZAILLIAN TO DABBLE IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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... four David Peace novels and totaled five hours. Scott and Zaillian are also in talks to produce along with Andrew Eaton of Revolutionary Films, which produced the mini. Garrett Basch of Film Rites will be executive producer. No word if any of the actors will carry over, but more than likely they'll start fresh with an American cast. In the meantime, Zaillian has Martin Scorsese's I Hear You Paint Houses for Paramount. Scott's probably riding a unicycle up Everest or some shit. via Variety
