FX Developing FROM HELL - Jack the Ripper TV Series
The FX network is developing a drama event series based on the Jack the Ripper inspired graphic novel From Hell. The project was adapted into a feature film back in 2001, and it starred Johnny Depp. That film was pretty disappointing.
The graphic novel comes from the minds of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, and was released as a comic series from 1989 to 1996. It will be adapted by David Arato, who wrote Children of Men. Thankfully the Hughes Brothers aren’t involved this time around. They directed the first movie.
From Hell tells the story 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 graphic novel is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century.”
I don’t know if you’ve read the graphic novel or not, but it's awesome. I think it’s much better suited for a TV series than a movie. This way they will have the time to tell the full story properly, and actually do it justice, unlike the film.
Source: Deadline