The Ripper, a film about the relationship between Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow, is to go into production.
According to Variety, first-time feature writer Gesha-Marie Bland has had her script picked up by Maven Pictures, the company behind Irvine Welsh’s adaptation of Filth that also has a producing credit for Andrea Arnold’s American Honey.
The friendship between McQueen, who was voted British designer of the year four times, and the aristocratic fashion editor Blow, was a close but often tempestuous one. Blow died at the age of 48 in 2008 and McQueen died in 2010.
The film will be competing with the next feature by acclaimed director Andrew Haigh, who is also making a movie about McQueen that will focus more on his relationship with his mother, Joyce, who died nine days before he killed himself.
