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Jack the Ripper Goes From Hell to FX
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/79186/jack-ripper-goes-hell-fx/

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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Tom Hardy and Steven Knight Reteam for FX Series TABOO; Ridley Scott Will Executive Produce
Read more at http://collider.com/taboo-tom-hardy-steven-knight/#xh1ME4OMDjfGojmK.99

Nice pedigree.

BBC One commissioned the series and will air in the U.K.

LOS ANGELES, November 18, 2014 – FX will tempt viewers with Taboo, a drama series from award-winning producer Ridley Scott, Academy Award-nominated writer Steven Knight and award-winning actor/producer Tom Hardy who will also star, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. Scott Free Films and Hardy Son & Baker will commence production in mid- to late 2015 in the U.K., with the series tentatively slated to debut in mid-2016. The series is being produced for BBC One in the U.K., with Sonar Entertainment distributing internationally.

Set in 1813, Taboo is based on an original story by Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy. In Taboo, Hardy plays the lead role of “James Keziah Delaney,” a rogue adventurer who returns from Africa with 14 ill-gotten diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father. Refusing to sell the family business to the East India Company, he sets out to build his own trade and shipping empire and finds himself playing a very dangerous game.

Taboo was created by Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders), who most recently wrote and directed the feature film Locke starring Hardy. Scott and Hardy will both serve as executive producers on Taboo.

“We are privileged to have landed Taboo and to work with this exceptional team led by Ridley, Tom and Steven,” said Schrier. “Tom’s passion for this project, from conceiving the original idea with his father to portraying James Delaney, promises to infuse this epic story with great personal passion and credibility.”

Scott said, “FX is the perfect partner to engage with this dark, fantastic world that Tom and Steven have created. We?re glad to have them on board.”

Hardy added, “Taboo is the first major production our company, Hardy Son & Baker, is setting sail on, and it gives me great pleasure to know that we are in partnership with FX and the BBC. I believe with the high standard of creative talent – with Steve Knight and Ridley Scott at the helm – and with the support and backing of these two great broadcasters, we have found the perfect home and team for Taboo.”

Read more at http://collider.com/taboo-tom-hardy-steven-knight/#xh1ME4OMDjfGojmK.99
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Yesterday was tv catch up/dcr cleanup day...so that meant finally saying goodbye to Wilfred. Didn't know it was going to be as painful to watch as it wound up being. But the show never followed any rules, so when Wilfred got cancer(lung cancer, presumably from smoking too much pot with Ryan) it brought real tears. Especially when he was euthanized and shown laying there, not as a man in a suit, but a beautiful mangy mutt. Too many memories of saying goodbye to loved ones. But then there were two more episodes so at least it didn't end like that. Did they FINALLY give you all the answers? Nope, they sure didn't. But, like any good finale, they gave you just what you needed to make your own decisions about what was going on. In my mind, Ryan was a deeply disturbed individual who learned enough about himself to CHOOSE his reality. In the end, he didn't get the girl, but he got what he needed to deal with life. A very satisfying end to a wonderfully odd show that I will miss and revisit often.
I did have another theory about how it ended...as I said, they left room for interpretation, at one point near the end, Ryan opens a door in his house, looks in, and has an I got it now look on his face. In my mind, that was him looking in and seeing his dead body, finally suceeding at the suicide he attempted in the very first episode. Therefore his reunion with Wilfred took place in the afterlife. A little too dark for me, so...like Ryan, I chose my own reality.
I know a lot of the few who were watching this gave up a while ago, but you may want to go back and finish the run. While never perfect, Wilfred was never predictable or boring.
 
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