After spending months in growth for an HBO collection that finally fell aside, FX and one of many largest TV producers round in Ryan Murphy are in early growth on an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis‘ semi-autobiographical e book, “The Shards,” a person with data of the undertaking advised IndieWire.
Whereas it’s early days and there’s no author hooked up simply but, the collection adaptation does have Kaia Gerber (“Bottoms,” “Saturday Night time”) meant to star and Max Winkler, who has labored on Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” “Monster,” and “Feud,” set to direct the pilot episode of the collection.
twentieth Century Tv is producing the collection alongside Ryan Murphy Tv. Government producers are Murphy, Ellis, Winkler, Nick Corridor, Kathleen McCaffrey, and Brian Younger.
FX and twentieth Century TV had no remark.
“The Shards” is an uncommon piece of supply materials because it’s a 600-page, unedited transcript drawn largely from Ellis’ Patreon serial that’s largely about himself: it’s a few character named Bret writing a e book known as “Much less Than Zero,” it’s set again in 1981 Los Angeles, and he’s a nihilistic, bisexual, prep-school teen. The e book additionally follows the murders of a serial killer referred to as The Trawler, however the entire e book is pulpy and sprawling in a approach that will make it troublesome to adapt.
Initially, Ellis himself was going to write down the collection adaptation when it was set at HBO, together with with “Dream Situation” director Kristoffer Borgli hooked up to direct, however the undertaking didn’t materialize following artistic variations. Murphy in the meantime has been circling the undertaking alongside Ellis since February, but it surely’s solely now landed at FX with each Gerber and Winkler invovled.
Gerber most just lately appeared in an episode of “Hacks,” on “Overcompensating,” and on the Apple TV+ collection “Palm Royale.”
Murphy has offers with Netflix and with twentieth Century. For the previous he’s engaged on the subsequent season of “Monster,” this time targeted on Ed Gein starring Charlie Hunnam, and he’s additionally at work on “9-1-1 Nashville,” “All’s Truthful” with Kim Kardashian, “The Magnificence,” and the subsequent season of “American Love Story.”
Deadline first reported the information.