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How many movie projects can director Ridley Scott get himself attached to? Maybe he's trying to determine the answer to that question as the British filmmaker with a knighthood is now involved in creatively shaping Red Riding for Columbia Pictures.

Based on a British mini-series, which itself was based on the first book in a series of David Peace novels, Red Riding centers on the police investigation into a number of missing young girls in the 1970s and 80s, and how the ones charged with upholding the law fall into corruption. Columbia purchased the rights to all four books in Peace's series as well as the mini too.

Scott's Scott Free Productions will develop the movie along with writer Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List, Clear and Present Danger) and Andrew Eaton, the producer of the mini. Zaillian worked with Scott before on the adaptation of Hannibal and American Gangster. Meanwhile, Ridley is attached to over a dozen movie projects as a possible director for them including an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's sci-fi classic The Forever War, the Alien prequel/reboot film and the vampire flick The Passage.