I’m Jack will be based on the story of labourer John Humble, who put police off killer Peter Sutcliffe’s scent with red-herring tapes and letters in 1978
The story of a cruel hoax which helped the Yorkshire Ripper to continue his killing spree for almost three years is to be made into a film.
I’m Jack will detail the case of John Humble, also known as “Wearside Jack”, who sent letters and tapes to the West Yorkshire police team investigating the ripper deaths in 1978. The film will be based on Mark Blacklock’s recent novel of the same name, rights to which have been bought by UK production company Mad as Birds. Welsh actor Celyn Jones, who starred as Dylan Thomas in the York-based firm’s 2014 biopic Set Fire to the Stars, will play Humble as well as co-writing the screenplay with Blacklock.
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The story of a cruel hoax which helped the Yorkshire Ripper to continue his killing spree for almost three years is to be made into a film.
I’m Jack will detail the case of John Humble, also known as “Wearside Jack”, who sent letters and tapes to the West Yorkshire police team investigating the ripper deaths in 1978. The film will be based on Mark Blacklock’s recent novel of the same name, rights to which have been bought by UK production company Mad as Birds. Welsh actor Celyn Jones, who starred as Dylan Thomas in the York-based firm’s 2014 biopic Set Fire to the Stars, will play Humble as well as co-writing the screenplay with Blacklock.
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- 6/15/2015
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
ITV has unveiled a preview of tonight's (November 5) documentary about Broadmoor Hospital.
Broadmoor producers were given unprecedented access for the new two-part series, giving the public a chance to see inside the high-security psychiatric centre for the first time in its 150-year history.
Often mistaken for a prison, the hospital treats severely mentally disordered patients, many of whom are violent criminals.
It has housed such notorious offenders as Charles Bronson, Ronnie Kray, Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine.
The documentary was filmed over 12 months, following both patients and staff as they go about their day-to-day routines.
Broadmoor begins tonight at 9pm on ITV.
Broadmoor producers were given unprecedented access for the new two-part series, giving the public a chance to see inside the high-security psychiatric centre for the first time in its 150-year history.
Often mistaken for a prison, the hospital treats severely mentally disordered patients, many of whom are violent criminals.
It has housed such notorious offenders as Charles Bronson, Ronnie Kray, Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine.
The documentary was filmed over 12 months, following both patients and staff as they go about their day-to-day routines.
Broadmoor begins tonight at 9pm on ITV.
- 11/5/2014
- Digital Spy
★★☆☆☆Skip Kite's Tony Benn: Will and Testament (2014) is a disappointing piece of Teflon 'non-cinema' that may well prove a mystery both to itself and general audiences. Kite claims that cinema is an example of "reverse engineering" and how the "thrill of the ride" is what made him pick film as his art form of choice. With that image reverberating around your mind, it's difficult to make sense of how he could have made such a pedestrian stroll through the life and times of one the most contentious figures of the late 20th century. Kite's only previous film, Peter (2010), was a mishmash of the confused and the offensive that attempted to delve into the psyche of Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper.
- 10/1/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
We all sit and watch the TV, tutting and saying "That wouldn't happen," but what do police crime dramas always get wrong?
"Three main things," reports retired Detective Inspector Steve Gaskin.
"Senior police officers are not angry all the time, which is how its always portrayed.
"The sergeant assisting the senior investigating officer is not thick." (Take note, Morse and Midsomer fans.)
Morse, and TV hits like it, raise unrealistic expectations of investigative success, according to Steve Gaskin
"In fact, he's often the focal point of the inquiry, so he's got a lot of facts, names and contacts in his head.
"Finally, the speed by which you see these cases get solved by forensics is completely unrealistic.
"Every exhibit has to be examined thoroughly and ethically. Science is just not that quick, and these dramas do raise false expectations."
Can You Think Of Anything Else That Always Seems Completely Unbelievable?...
"Three main things," reports retired Detective Inspector Steve Gaskin.
"Senior police officers are not angry all the time, which is how its always portrayed.
"The sergeant assisting the senior investigating officer is not thick." (Take note, Morse and Midsomer fans.)
Morse, and TV hits like it, raise unrealistic expectations of investigative success, according to Steve Gaskin
"In fact, he's often the focal point of the inquiry, so he's got a lot of facts, names and contacts in his head.
"Finally, the speed by which you see these cases get solved by forensics is completely unrealistic.
"Every exhibit has to be examined thoroughly and ethically. Science is just not that quick, and these dramas do raise false expectations."
Can You Think Of Anything Else That Always Seems Completely Unbelievable?...
- 10/10/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Thirty-five years after it vanished, The Black Panther – Ian Merrick's 1977 film about serial killer Donald Neilson – emerges as a gripping and highly responsible true-crime movie
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
- 6/6/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Dominic West has revealed that he has been asked if he would play the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. Last year, West starred as Fred West in ITV1's acclaimed drama Appropriate Adult. He has now told The Daily Telegraph that he would consider playing Sutcliffe - also known as the Yorkshire Ripper - if the script was good enough. "Coming from Sheffield, I've been asked whether I'd like to make a film about the Yorkshire Ripper, as he was caught in the city," West said. "But, as with Fred West, you have to find an interesting angle on these stories (more)...
- 1/6/2012
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Taking inspiration from one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, Peter Sutcliffe, this pseudo-documentary combines vintage footage with dramatised scenes in an attempt to reveal the inner psyche of a monster. Available today on DVD, our review continues below…
Peter: Portrait of a Serial Killer is the first feature length drama to contain genuine archive footage that takes the audience on a unique journey into the mind of Peter Sutcliffe, ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’. Beginning with his formative years in Yorkshire, through the largest police manhunt in history, to his on-going psychological treatment in Broadmoor Hospital, issues of retribution, punishment, compassion and guilt are raised…
Peter: Portrait of a Serial Killer is not what you’d expect of film based on a real life criminal. Rather than dramatising the actual crimes, director Skip Kite is more concerned with entyering the mind of his subject and delving into the psychiology behind...
Peter: Portrait of a Serial Killer is the first feature length drama to contain genuine archive footage that takes the audience on a unique journey into the mind of Peter Sutcliffe, ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’. Beginning with his formative years in Yorkshire, through the largest police manhunt in history, to his on-going psychological treatment in Broadmoor Hospital, issues of retribution, punishment, compassion and guilt are raised…
Peter: Portrait of a Serial Killer is not what you’d expect of film based on a real life criminal. Rather than dramatising the actual crimes, director Skip Kite is more concerned with entyering the mind of his subject and delving into the psychiology behind...
- 10/24/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
While the longform drama will always be the domain of prestigious American premium cable networks, the British do mini-series better than anyone else in the world. A measured, glacially paced adaptation of English author David Peace's hard-hitting Red Riding Quartet, this layered, relentlessly downbeat series encompasses a string of child murders, inclusive, and against the backdrop, of the real-life Yorkshire Ripper slayings that rocked the rural county of Yorkshire in the late seventies. Titled after the year in which they are set (1974, 1980, and 1983), each episode begins "In the Year of Our Lord...", a desperate plea that someone, anyone, is up there watching over us. Because, based on this bleak evidence, no one down here on Earth is.
While each individual installment was helmed by a different director working independently from the other two, the series retains a uniform tone; shuffling characters, looping back on itself, informing what has gone...
While each individual installment was helmed by a different director working independently from the other two, the series retains a uniform tone; shuffling characters, looping back on itself, informing what has gone...
- 9/7/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
What American cinemagoers make of the acclaimed adaptations of David Peace's Ellroy-meets-70s-Yorkshire noir novels will be intriguing to see
It's a long journey from the bleakest corners of West Yorkshire to the sleepless glitz of Manhattan. But that's the route being taken by the Red Riding trilogy, the film adaptations of three of David Peace's four northern noir crime novels that aired on Channel 4 last year – they're now set to enjoy a theatrical release in the Us, kicking off next month in New York. It's certainly an intriguing meeting of cultures; what even the most anglophile American audience will make of stories so steeped in the murkiest stuff of late 20th-century British history remains to be seen.
There again, it's never been a fruitful pastime predicting which British movies might find favour in the States. Those with long memories will recall the unlikely box-office success of curios...
It's a long journey from the bleakest corners of West Yorkshire to the sleepless glitz of Manhattan. But that's the route being taken by the Red Riding trilogy, the film adaptations of three of David Peace's four northern noir crime novels that aired on Channel 4 last year – they're now set to enjoy a theatrical release in the Us, kicking off next month in New York. It's certainly an intriguing meeting of cultures; what even the most anglophile American audience will make of stories so steeped in the murkiest stuff of late 20th-century British history remains to be seen.
There again, it's never been a fruitful pastime predicting which British movies might find favour in the States. Those with long memories will recall the unlikely box-office success of curios...
- 1/15/2010
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
The acclaimed Red Riding film trilogy (1974, 1980, and 1984) is slated for a stateside theatrical release on February 5th, 2010. IFC picked up the film after its successful 2009 festival run, and is promoting the release with a new poster and theatrical trailer (see below).
Red Riding, which is based on a series of grim, brutal novels by David Peace, uses the true-crime case of the Peter Sutcliffe (aka The Yorkshire Ripper) as a foundation for an epic tale of political corruption, criminal depravity, and human greed.
Red Riding, which is based on a series of grim, brutal novels by David Peace, uses the true-crime case of the Peter Sutcliffe (aka The Yorkshire Ripper) as a foundation for an epic tale of political corruption, criminal depravity, and human greed.
- 1/10/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Channel 4 will make three films based on David Peace's novels about the Yorkshire Ripper, Variety reports. Peace's 'Red Riding Quartet' series, which focuses on the police hunt and eventual conviction of Peter Sutcliffe for a series of murders in the '70s and '80s, have been adapted into three screenplays by Tony Grisoni (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas). Three directors have signed on to work on the $$10 million-budgeted (more)...
- 7/8/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Over in the UK Channel 4 is prepping three of the four books in David Peace’s “Red Riding Quartet” for films, all adapted by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas penner Tony Grisoni, according to Variety. Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker will direct.
Why only three of the four? Maybe because trilogies are easier to sell than quartets? With a budget totaling $10 million, Nineteen Seventy-Four (Jarrold), Nineteen Eighty (Marsh) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (Tucker) will be filmed, following the long search for the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter Sutcliffe. The hunt lasted from 1974 to his capture in 1981. Sutcliffe is currently serving multiple life sentences.
The films are being made as a TV series in the UK with a possible theatrical release to follow, but they will be packaged as strictly theatrical everywhere else so assuming they do well, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing them all.
Why only three of the four? Maybe because trilogies are easier to sell than quartets? With a budget totaling $10 million, Nineteen Seventy-Four (Jarrold), Nineteen Eighty (Marsh) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (Tucker) will be filmed, following the long search for the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter Sutcliffe. The hunt lasted from 1974 to his capture in 1981. Sutcliffe is currently serving multiple life sentences.
The films are being made as a TV series in the UK with a possible theatrical release to follow, but they will be packaged as strictly theatrical everywhere else so assuming they do well, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing them all.
- 7/8/2008
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
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