The Red Riding Trilogy is a series of modern noir films, each helmed by a different director and each taking place in a different year. They follow a “a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and ’80s.” The first is directed by Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited), second by James Marsh (Man on Wire) and the final film by Anand Tucker (Shopgirl and Leap Year, released today). Ridley Scott has already picked up the rights for a US remake. Check out the trailer below via Bloody Disgusting or over at Apple in HD. Read the full story

Although Ridley Scott might have one too many projects up  his sleeve he has been attached to yet another one, Variety reports. The UK Red Riding crime trilogy, which premiered at this years Telluride Film Festival, has been picked up by Columbia for production through writer Steve Zaillian and Scott’s companies (Film Rite and Scott Free, respectively). Zaillian and Scott have previously worked together on Hannibal and American Gangster.

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