Hammer Films Acquire Jack The Ripper Thriller Gaslight

Fresh off the success of The Woman in Black, Hammer Films have announced their latest pickup, acquiring the rights to Gaslight. The Jack the Ripper story, described as an "atmospheric thriller in the vein of 'From Hell' meets 'Silence of the Lambs,'" and is based on an original screenplay by newcomer Ian Fried that made the 2011 Black List of unproduced scripts. Gaslight has the following synopsis; Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck. Jack the Ripper vs Vampires then, we can presume? Fried is currently writing a supernatural actioner titled Spectral for Legendary Pictures and his previous work, The Ever After Murders, was a murder mystery film involving fairy tale characters which also ended up on the Hollywood Black List of 2010. This guy sure likes his genre-meshing high concepts. Hammer's most recent effort The Woman in Black has taken $21 million at the US box office in less than a week of release in the US.