Source: Variety

Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian are reportedly in negotiations to adapt the U.K. miniseries Red Riding into a film for Columbia Pictures, which just bought the rights to the crime drama. The five-hour miniseries, which aired earlier this year, adapted itself from the novels by David Peace. Scott and Zaillian will be faced with the challenge of compressing the three episodes (or four books) into one movie.

While that—and the idea of moving the U.K.-set stories over to the U.S.—sounds daunting, Scott and Zaillian have yet to make to make a flop together. They previously worked together in 2007 on American Gangster, another crime drama which brought in $265 million worldwide, and on 2001's Hannibal, bringing in another $349 million.

Scott, who most recently directed Body of Lies, will next direct 2010's Robin Hood. Zaillian recently wrote the infamously-scuttled Moneyball, which was shut down due to some script rewrites by Steven Soderbergh mere days before production.