{"id":5808,"date":"2016-03-25T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/neil-cross-to-bring-the-talented-mr-ripley-to-series\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:37:01","slug":"neil-cross-to-bring-the-talented-mr-ripley-to-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/neil-cross-to-bring-the-talented-mr-ripley-to-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Cross to Bring The Talented Mr. Ripley to Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Neil Cross (<em>Luther<\/em>) is adapting Patricia Highsmith&#8217;s <em>Tom Ripley<\/em> novels, the acclaimed books that begin with <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em>, as a series.<\/p>\n<p>The series will be produced by Entertainment 360, Diogenes (Highsmith&#8217;s Zurich-based publisher and agency) and Endemol Shine Studios, the scripted division of Endemol Shine North America. The three companies have partnered to develop Highsmith&#8217;s<em> Tom Ripley<\/em> books, often referred to as The Ripliad, as a series.<\/p>\n<p>Cross is the creator and writer of the hit BBC crime series <em>Luther<\/em>. He also wrote the international hit horror movie <em>MAMA<\/em> and has written multiple episodes of <em>Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Guymon Casady and Ben Forkner will executive produce for Television 360. Philipp Keel will executive produce for Diogenes. Lifelong fans of the Ripley books, Casady and Forkner built a relationship with Keel and Diogenes, which evolved into a creative partnership to develop the novels together as a series. There are five novels in the series, beginning with <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em>, and followed by <em>Ripley Underground<\/em> (1970), <em>Ripley&#8217;s Game<\/em> (1974), <em>The Boy Who Followed Ripley<\/em> (1980) and <em>Ripley Under Water<\/em> (1991).<\/p>\n<p>There have been Ripley feature adaptations in the past: from Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment&#8217;s <em>Purple Noon<\/em> (1960) to Wim Wender&#8217;s <em>The American Friend<\/em> (1977) to Anthony Minghella&#8217;s <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em> (1999), which starred Matt Damon and Jude Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Neil Cross (Luther) is adapting Patricia Highsmith&#8217;s Tom Ripley novels, the acclaimed books that begin with The Talented Mr. Ripley, as a series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[617,618],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-neil-cross","tag-the-talented-mr-ripley","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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