EXCLUSIVE: The surprising homicide of mannequin Rachel Nickell, and the bungled police investigations that adopted, proceed to be an limitless supply of fascination for TV producers.
Deadline understands that each Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have lined up documentaries on Nickell, the British girl who was stabbed to loss of life on Wimbledon Widespread, south-west London, in July 1992.
Netflix has greenlit an unique documentary from Blast! Films, the Sky Studios-owned manufacturing firm behind Nat Geo’s Tsunami: Race Towards Time. Netflix declined to remark.
Manufacturing has been underway for a lot of months on the three-part sequence, which has the working title Wimbledon Widespread. Netflix is anticipated to combine documentary storytelling with dramatized parts because it examines Nickell’s homicide and police failures in catching her killer Robert Napper.
In the meantime, Amazon Prime Video has acquired the UK rights to The Wimbledon Killer, a two-part sequence that options interviews with detectives about what went mistaken with the investigation, not least wrongly accusing Colin Stagg of homicide.
The Wimbledon Killer is produced by Blink Films, the UK outfit behind Discovery’s Mom, Could I Homicide?. The Nickell doc is distributed internationally by Sphere Abacus.
Nickell’s homicide can be the topic of an upcoming Netflix drama sequence, titled The Witness. André and Alex Hanscombe, the associate and son of Nickell (Alex was together with his mom when she was killed in broad daylight), have consulted on the sequence, which is produced by STV Studios.
The tragedy was additionally spotlighted 4 years in the past in Channel 4 drama Deceit, starring Niamh Algar. Numerous different documentaries have been made concerning the homicide, together with ITV’s Rachel Nickell: The Untold Story.
