Chinese serial killer story to go to the big screen
- By Zhang Rui
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E-mail China.org.cn, September 9, 2016
The recent arrest of China's "Jack the Ripper" has prompted the killer's story to be adapted into a thriller movie, a film studio said.
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Police detain Gao Chengyong, a suspected serial killer, in Baiyin, Gansu province, on Aug. 26. [File photo] |
The suspect Gao Chengyong raped and killed 11 women and girls between 1988 and 2002 at victims' homes in Baiyin, Gansu Province, and Baotou, Inner Mongolia. He often mutilated his victims and managed to escape justice for 28 years until his arrest on Aug. 26.
On Thursday, Meridian Entertainment announced on Tianya.cn, China's biggest online message board, that it would establish a new film studio and adapt the top 10 unresolved crime cases into films, including Gao's story.
Tianya.cn, a leading online forum since 1999, provides a platform for internet users to discuss news, entertainment, life and other subjects. The unresolved cases are one of its users' major interests and topics, with many of them searching out the truth and trying to connect the dots.
Gao's story was discussed in 60,000 posts on Tianya.cn and was viewed by 4.6 million times. Many anonymous sources provided inside documents about the case and pieced together the evidence. The useful detective inferences helped the police resolve the case.
Jennifer Dong, founder & CEO of Meridian Entertainment which invested in the top grossing film "Mojin: The Lost Legend," said they would make a series of action-thriller movies for the cases rather than documentary films. She also said they would ask for help from top crime film script writers and filmmakers overseas to make sure the upcoming films reach top international standards.
Meridian Entertainment, established in 2013, has teamed up with FremantleMedia North America in July to run Random House Studio, which was bought from Penguin Random House in order to produce movies and TV shows based on works by the publishers' authors.
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