Jack the Ripper Goes From Hell to FX
Steve Barton
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Jack the Ripper. His name will forever live in infamy for his ghoulish and violent deeds. The mystery surrounding this real-life monster will forever fascinate, and there’s a new TV project on its way to help explore the dark details.
Deadline is reporting that FX is developing “From Hell,” a drama series based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, which was adapted into the 2001 20th Century Fox feature starring Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane. Don Murphy, who produced the film, is executive producing the mini. David Arata (Children of Men) will write the adaptation. The Hughes bothers, who directed the movie, are not involved.
The graphic novel told the tale of Jack the Ripper with the killer himself as the main character. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, the 572-page book is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century.
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