{"id":68567,"date":"2014-11-18T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=68567"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:27:34","slug":"from-hell-is-being-turned-into-at-tv-show-at-fx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/from-hell-is-being-turned-into-at-tv-show-at-fx\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore’s not going to like the new From Hell news"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fromhell\"<\/a>From Hell<\/strong><\/em>, the stunning graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell based on the story of Jack the Ripper, is being developed for TV.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports that FX has hired Children Of Men<\/em><\/strong> writer David Arata to adapt the doorstop-sized tome for television, while Don Murphy produces.<\/p>\n

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Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick Abberline in the film From Hell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Murphy produced the film adaptation from directors Albert and Allen Hughes, which starred Johnny Depp as Inspector Abberline (turned into an opium-taking maverick who sees deaths in drug-fuelled visions) and Heather Graham as Mary Kelly. From Hell<\/em><\/strong> the movie did not work, if we’re being brutally honest, and we can see TV being kinder to the format of the graphic novel.<\/p>\n

Still, it remains to be seen just how much of the sprawling darkness, mysticism and gruesome detail of Moore and Campbell’s work makes it into the show, or whether it’s simply a Jack the Ripper series with the credibility that comes from adapting a recognised classic.<\/p>\n

You can buy From Hell<\/em> in paperback for £16.99 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. Read more about the comic in our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s groundbreaking graphic novel From Hell comes to TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":68569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[54,4175],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fromhell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}