Ryan Murphy & Evan Rachel Wooden Reunite For Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards Adaptation

Nineteen years after engaged on Operating with Scissors, Ryan Murphy and Evan Rachel Wooden are teaming up for a brand-new present. Murphy directed and wrote the screenplay for Operating with Scissors, which was launched in 2006. The previous Westworld forged member starred alongside an all-star forged that included Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union and Kristin Chenoweth.

Now Murphy and Wooden are again collectively on a brand new venture, a TV present known as The Shards, which can air on FX, in response to Deadline. Rounding out the forged are Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Graham Campbell and Hayes Warner.

Wooden’s function hasn’t been revealed but, however she is going to star as a recurring character. The present is an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel The Shards, which takes place at a highschool within the Eighties. The story focuses on a tragedy that happens after a brand new pupil arrives.

Ellis is finest recognized for writing American Psycho, which was become a movie starring Christian Bale.

Operating with Scissors, which was critically panned regardless of profitable a number of awards, was launched whereas Murphy’s medical drama Nip/Tuck was on the air and three years earlier than his hit musical comedy collection Glee catapulted his profession into the stratosphere.

Since then, Murphy has created, produced and written quite a few exhibits like American Horror Story, Scream Queens, American Crime Story, Feud, 9-1-1 and Pose.

The multi-hyphenate creator has a number of exhibits presently on the air, together with 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville. The Ed Gein Story, the third season of his Monster anthology collection, was launched on Netflix on October 3. It solely has a 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the lowest-rated installment of the true crime collection.

Murphy is about to launch a star-studded authorized drama on Hulu known as All’s Truthful with Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Shut. Except for The Shards, he is bought different exhibits within the works, together with The Magnificence and Love Story.

Wooden, in the meantime, adopted up her function in Operating with Scissors by starring in such movies as The Ides of March, Throughout the Universe, Frozen 2 and Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story, in addition to the TV exhibits True Blood and Westworld, the latter of which earned her a Critics’ Alternative Award, a Golden Globe nomination and two Emmy nominations.

Together with Operating with Scissors, Murphy’s observe report has definitely been combined in terms of the essential reception of his initiatives, so it is method too early to inform how The Shards will likely be acquired by the general public. Nonetheless, the novel it is being tailored from acquired combined opinions however was a bestseller nonetheless.