The three-part crime-drama, based on David Peace's four Red Riding novels, plays host to a list of well-known stars when it premieres this Thursday.
Sean Bean and Warren Clarke
in Red Riding
The three-part series, set in West Yorkshire, follows a young reporter, played by Sugar Rush's Andrew Garfield, as he uncovers similarities between the disappearances of three young girls.
The three episodes, each an hour long, follow three different investigations with startling similarities. The episodes are split over a period of nine years: 1974, 1980 and 1983.
"The plan was to make each drama both a stand-alone, full-length film, and at the same time link into the other three," the show's writer, Tony Grisoni, said.
"Characters would develop and reappear in later films; events would be referred to and revisited in flashback. It meant that any change in the action, characters or sequence in one story would have consequences for the other tales," he explained.
The dark trilogy of interlinking films also stars The Fixer's Peter Mullan, Bourne Ultimatum actor Paddy Considine and Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Rebecca Hall, who admitted that the cast consisted of some of the actors she "admires the most."
The first episode of the Red Riding trilogy is set in 1974 and can be seen on Thursday, March 5, on Channel 4 at 9pm.
Comments (3)
thanks for highlighting - looks good, would have missed it otherwise.
Really want to see this so will prob record or watch online because thursday is not the best day to show considering the american shows I watch on that night. Wednesday would have been more suited, all they'd have to do is shift desperate Housewives to nine and this to 10pm.
this looks good