FX Developing TV Series Based On Alan Moore's FROM HELL

FX Developing TV Series Based On Alan Moore's FROM HELL

According to Deadline, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's highly-acclaimed Jack the Ripper era graphic novel From Hell (which was previously adapted as a movie starring Johnny Depp) is being developed into a dramatic series by FX. Come check it out.

By nailbiter111 - Nov 17, 2014 09:11 PM EST
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Source: Deadline

 
Cable network FX is developing a dramatic television series based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, a graphic novel about Jack The Ripper. It was previously adapted into a 2001 feature film by 20th Century Fox that starred Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Robbie Coltrane. It was directed by Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes. One of the film's producers, Don Murphy, will be an executive producer for the From Hell television series. He's the only major player from the film to be involved with the show. Children Of Men screenwriter David Arata will pen the adaptation.

Moore and Campbell's From Hell was published from 1989 to 1996 and is 572 pages long. The comic was inspired by Stephen Knight's controversial theory that the Jack The Ripper murders were orchestrated by Freemasons and the British Royal Family to cover up a matter involving Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. It is believed Prince Albert, who was in line to be the future King of England, fathered a child with a commoner (Annie Crook), and may have secretly married her.



Based on a popular graphic novel, From Hell puts an intense psychological spin on the horrific legend of Jack the Ripper and unravels a chilling alleged conspiracy involving the highest powers in England. Jack the Ripper committed five heinous, ritualistic murders during a ten-week span in London in the fall of 1888, creating a frenzied atmosphere of gossip, rumor and terror. Jack the Ripper was never caught; he remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in history.
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PunkD
PunkD - 11/17/2014, 9:31 PM
Could be good
Monitorearthprime
Monitorearthprime - 11/17/2014, 9:35 PM
I just do not see this as a series, the movie covered it.
elcaballerooscuro92
elcaballerooscuro92 - 11/17/2014, 9:40 PM
alan moore is not gonna be happy.
Demongod20
Demongod20 - 11/17/2014, 9:45 PM
The only thing I could think about while reading this is Santa Monica Cop the Movie and Santa Monica Cop the TV show on the Showtime series Californication.
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 9:46 PM
CHILDREN OF MEN

IM SOLD
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 9:49 PM
Anyone that worked on Children of Men has achieved level 9000
plus unlocked infinite girlfriends.
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 10:06 PM
@Nailbiter111
sorry that wasn't my intention
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 10:07 PM
@Nailbiter
have the rules changed?
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 10:19 PM
The only person that could solve the case....*deep breath* THE BATMAN!



AmericanPatriot if you are reading this tony stark couldn't solve that ;)
MrGlass
MrGlass - 11/17/2014, 10:20 PM
I hardly remember this movie

ItsATrap
ItsATrap - 11/17/2014, 10:25 PM
cue statement from alan moore saying that anyone who watches this should burn in eternal hellfire
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 11/17/2014, 10:45 PM
I liked the movie. It'll be interesting to get more story. Is the book any good?
Trickwil
Trickwil - 11/17/2014, 10:57 PM
The biggest issue with it is that there's concrete DNA evidence that the killer was just some loony Polish Immigrant.
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 11/17/2014, 11:01 PM
What I'd really love is a more source faithful B.P.R.D. TV Series

That'd be so sexy
sansClaymore
sansClaymore - 11/17/2014, 11:02 PM
from hell feature film with depp was from 2001 not 2011. not nit picking the typo in the article just stuck out to me when reading and my ocd got going lol
KilledHal9000
KilledHal9000 - 11/17/2014, 11:08 PM
@sansClaymore

Thank you.
Baka
Baka - 11/18/2014, 1:52 AM
FX's latest tvvadaptions have been quite good lately (the strain,fargo) so ill give this a watch
@sansclaymore i thought that 2011 was way too recent for it aswell so thanks.
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 11/18/2014, 2:34 AM
I'm glad someone is doing for From Hell what should have been done for Watchmen by making the latter a TV miniseries.

I have a copy of the graphic novel and it is, by far, the pinnacle of Alan Moore's career. The level of research, precision, and depth of symbolism in the narrative even exceeds Watchmen.

I can't say how much I think the Hughes Brother movie destroyed Moore's point about modernity and patriarchy by turning the story into a simplified love story.
Desrow
Desrow - 11/18/2014, 4:19 AM
Children of Men it's on my top 5 of all time, just unreal movie.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 11/18/2014, 5:32 AM
sounds interesting, definitely a better way to adapt the source material than a movie
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 11/18/2014, 5:34 AM
Would have been more happy to hear "mini-series" but still
JRoark
JRoark - 11/18/2014, 6:07 AM
Um... Am I the only person who reads non-comic book news?

They used DNA evidence to decisively determine who Jack the Ripper was. He was a hairdresser/barber named Aaron Kosminski, who was the London Police's main suspect. The murders stopped when he was thrown into an insane asylum for schizophrenia.

They took blood and semen samples they found on the shawl of the fourth dead prostitute, Catherine Eddowes. They then compared those samples to their respective descendants... It was a big-time match.

Some scientists say the research was flawed and that the mitochondrial DNA matched is too general and would have been a hit on thousands of people. Okay, fine, but if the genetic match only occurs in Kosminski out of all of the Ripper suspects, then so what??

How can you POSSIBLY make this series, when you know all along that it's a load of crap?!?! A great story, for sure, but a load of crap.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/18/2014, 6:11 AM
Definitely works better as a tv show
JRoark
JRoark - 11/18/2014, 6:12 AM
Correction: London Police=Scotland Yard
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