MUMBAI: Jamie Vanderbilt known for his writing in films like the Amazing Spider-Man and Zodiac has been tapped to pen the script for Red Riding, Columbia‘s adaptation of the popular British TV movies.

Produced under the Scott Free banner along with Steve Zaillian and Film Rites shingle, the film would be directed by Ridley Scot.

The Red Riding story adapts four books by David Pearce and tracks the disappearance and grisly murders of several young girls as well as police corruption in a British town.

The stories took place from 1974 to 1983, followed a large cast consisting of a journalist, a solicitors, a reverend, a male prostitute, a businessman, many police officers, and assorted wives and lovers.

With Riding, Vanderbilt, is also set to prove to be one of Columbia‘s go-to scribes. Besides Spider-Man, he wrote Total Recall, the studio‘s remake of the 1990 sci-fi action film that starts shooting this summer.