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 lady who was stabbed to dying on Wimbledon Frequent, south-west London, in July 1992.
Netflix has greenlit an authentic documentary from Blast! Movies, 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 collection, which has the working title Wimbledon Frequent. 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 collection that options interviews with detectives about what went flawed with the investigation, not least wrongly accusing Colin Stagg of homicide.
The Wimbledon Killer is produced by Blink Movies, the UK outfit behind Discovery’s Mom, Might I Homicide?. The Nickell doc is distributed internationally by Sphere Abacus.
Nickell’s homicide can also be the topic of an upcoming Netflix drama collection, titled The Witness. André and Alex Hanscombe, the associate and son of Nickell (Alex was along with his mom when she was killed in broad daylight), have consulted on the collection, 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.
