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Ryan Murphy‘s anticipated caller series The Shards, based connected Bret Easton Ellis‘ prep schoolhouse thriller novel, will premiere August 5 connected FX and Hulu, arsenic good arsenic Disney+ internationally, it was announced Wednesday.
Suspense, seduction and obsession. That’s what FX teases we tin expect from nan play series, which hails from 20th Television and Ryan Murphy Productions.
First unveiled arsenic a serialized audiobook earlier hitting nan shelves successful 2023, The Shards is a acheronian coming-of-age communicative pinch semi-autobiographical facets for Ellis. Set successful Los Angeles successful 1981, nan communicative follows a 17-year-old type of Ellis during his last twelvemonth astatine nan elite Buckley prep school. Upending nan character’s world is nan presence of a mysterious caller student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling beingness coincides pinch nan activities of a serial slayer known arsenic The Trawler.
Per nan charismatic logline: Set against nan vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, nan bid follows a group of privileged precocious schoolhouse seniors astatine an elite prep schoolhouse arsenic they navigate identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and nan dangers lurking beneath nan aboveground of American adolescence.
Igby Rigney stars arsenic Bret, an aspiring writer and keenly observant teen whose reality originates to unravel pinch nan presence of a mysterious and magnetic caller student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), per nan charismatic logline. Transferring successful conscionable earlier his elder year, Robert’s quality coincides pinch nan increasing panic of The Trawler, a serial slayer targeting teenagers crossed nan city.
Alongside Bret is his elite societal circle, which includes Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber), Debbie Schaffer (Hayes Warner) and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell), a glamorous and profoundly entangled group drawn into a life of wealth, beauty, parties and excess. The committedness of their younker is contrasted pinch nan acheronian and cynical world of nan adults surrounding them: Terry Schaffer (Wes Bentley), Liz Schaffer (Evan Rachel Wood) and Steven Reinhardt (Jordan Roth).
Gere’s (son of Richard Gere) Robert Mallory and Wright’s Graham Campbell are cardinal characters successful nan novel.
The Shards is executive produced by Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Ellis, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Tanase Popa, Nick Hall, Michael Uppendahl, Max Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young. The bid is produced by 20th Television.
