The Red Riding Trilogy
The Story:
Based on the trilogy, several characters intertwining storylines united by the horror wrought by the "Yorkshire Ripper," a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and '80s.
Red Riding - 1974' (Directed by Julian Jarrold) centers on a rookie journalist, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), whose investigation of a series of child abductions and murders leads him to suspect that there's a terrifying connection between the perpetrators and the upper echelons of Yorkshire power.
'Red Riding - 1980' (Directed by James Marsh) finds the police and the public still baffled that the "Ripper" remains at large and may have inspired a copycat killer. A veteran police officer, Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine), is called in from Manchester to take over the investigation, but his new theories about the case only incite growing opposition to his involvement.
'Red Riding - 1983' (Directed by Anand Tucker) starts with the kidnaping of another young girl. Detective Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) notices a number of powerful similarities to the abduction cases he had investigated back in the '70s--and for which a man was convicted and sentenced. Meanwhile, a reluctant local solicitor, John Piggott (Mark Addy), who grew up in the same benighted housing project as the girls’ accused killer, a mentally challenged man knowingly named Myshkin (Daniel Mays).decides to take up the condemned man's cause.
Starring:
Andrew Garfield, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Sean Harris, Rebecca Hall, Robert Sheehan
Directed By:
Julian Jarrold (1974), James Marsh (1980), Anand Tucker (1983)
Release:
2010
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