I just read this on Empire Magazine's website and this piqued my interest as I have seen both "The Talented Mr. Ripley" directed by Anthony Minghella film which starred Matt Damon and one of the follow up films to this "Ripley's Game" which starred John Malkovich as the title role of Tom Ripley but now older and living in what looks like to me the same rundown house that was owned by Philip Kingsley in the first film and now redoing it with his classical pianist girlfriend in Italy and her having some knowledge of what he did in the first film.
Anyway...according to The Hollywood Reporter Television 360, Edamol Shine Studios and the original author of this series of books written by Patricia Highsmith Zurich based publisher and agency Diogenes are going to be teaming up to bring these five books to the TV screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter the vision that these three have for this new TV series is to expand on both Rene Clement's 1960's feature "Purple Noon" as well as Anthony Mighella's adaption of this character,-which if you haven't read any of these books which include "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Ripley Underground", "Ripley's Game", "The Boy Who Followed Ripley" and "Ripley Under Water", or seen the film which starred Matt Damon as Tom Ripley and Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf and Gwyneth Paltrow as Dickie's fiancé Marge and saw both Dickie and Marge living in Mongavelo in Italy where he being from a wealthy family was spending his trust fund at a rate of knots with going traveling around Italy, drinking, playing saxophone, listening and going to Jazz clubs and festivals and going every year skiing in Cortina with other trust fund school friends and his father had hired Tom to go to Italy to get Dickie to come back to America using his mother's illness as a means for Dickie to take over the family shipping company, but this then sees Tom Ripley formulating an idea to befriend Dickie Greenleaf and Marge and then steal the inheritance and kill Dickie but along the way the body count starts to pile up because suspicions start to arise and then things get complicated, this film and book "Purple Noon" according to The Hollywood Reporter was based on the first book in this series of books.
Guymon Casady from 360 Television and Ben Forkner will executive produce this TV series, Philip Keel of Diogenes will also be executive producing this and the executive vp for Edamol Shine Studios Jeremy Gold will oversee the project for the studios.
All concerned are hoping to put the property together with a writer or major filmmaker as well as an actor before shopping this to the premium cable networks or streaming services.
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