Channel 4 and Revolution Studios are teaming up for a film trilogy based on the hunt for the famed Yorkshire Ripper serial killer. According to Variety, the films? source material will come from David Peace?s Red Riding Quartet novels and will adapt only three of the four book series?. The film trilogy sets itself in Yorkshire in the 1970s and early ?80s. Storylines cover police corruption and perversion of justice in the hunt for the Ripper from 1975 until his detection in 1981, when Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women. He is now serving multiple life sentences. The films are set to be helmed by three different directors: Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) will direct the first book and movie Nineteen Seventy Four, James Marsh (The King, Man on Wire) the second film and third book Nineteen Eighty, and Anand Tucker (Shopgirl) the fourth book and third movie Nineteen Eighty Three. The books were adapted by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) who claims that the unadapted second book Nineteen Seventy Seven will be woven into all three films in various ways. No release date scheduled yet, though it is speculated that the films will air in the UK as a mini-series and then possibly be sold for theatrical release in other markets.

The Red Riding Quartet is set to pop up on the UK's Channel 4, check out what's coming soon on the FEARnet channel... DUST TO DUST!!