As crime genre takes over our TV drama, and filmmakers wrestle with fact-based fiction, Michael Winterbottom’s production company has taken on the Yorkshire Ripper and enchanted SBS.
SBS is running The Red Riding Trilogy on three successive nights in November. Each 120 minutes long, derived from the noir novels by David Peace, they fictionalise the Yorkshire Ripper story from 1974 to 1983. They are produced by Revolution Films, the production vehicle for Michael Winderbottom and Andrew Easton, and each has a separate and significant director – Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited), James Marsh (Man on Wire) and Anand Tucker (And When Did You Last See Your Father?).
