What Event in History Would YOU Like to See Ryan Murphy Turn Into a Limited Series for Netflix?

The Dyatlov Party, of course!

Thoughts?

The Kenley Players 1976 Summer Season, or whatever year had Paul Lynde in Plaza Suite.

[quotes] The Dyatlov Party, of course!

What’s the Dyatlov Party, R1?

the first act of male on male sodomy. whenever the hell that was.

[quote] What’s the Dyatlov Party, [R1]?

I have no idea. We never discuss it here, so I'm in the dark. A simple search would turn up nothing!

r4 I can see him stretching it out over the whole series if it stars David Corenswet and the totally not gay Darren Criss.

Farrow vs Allen. The entire saga.

With 100% not gay Darren Criss as Ronan Farrow? I would watch that!

The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, of course!

Darren Criss as Greg, Tharah Paluson as Fake Jan, and is Jessica Lange too old to play Carol?

Not sure who Kathy Bates will play, maybe guest star Mama Cass.

The Epstein scandal with Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and the other prominent people who have been exposed.

The making of the Mame movie starring Lucy. Darren "Not Gay" Criss can play grown up Patrick. Perhaps we will see the backstory of Patrick hooking up with Mr. Babcock - deleted from the original movie. We can also watch a pissed off Angela Lansbury as she learns she will not be playing Mame.

& John Carroll Lynch can play Bea Arthur

"Tortured Encounter: The Ramon Novarro Killing and Trial."

Starring Martin Sheen as Ramon Navarro. Netflix "Bright New Stars" hand-picked by Ryan Murphy as the Ferguson brothers.

Special Guest Appearance by Kathy Bates as "The Housekeeper."

There's nothing gay, glamorous or showbiz about The Donner Party. So why would Ryan Murphy care, OP?

You're not funny or savvy.

r14 He'll make it gay, glamorous and showbiz!

R9 Bates is perfect for Alice, no?

Maybe Warhol’s factory and the art scene in the 60s and 70s.

The Lea Michele Story!

I think The Donner Party or something about The Oregon Trail would be tremendous. Watching him try to make pioneer women fierce and glamorous, as well as trying to insert twinks and gay content among the strife would be hilarious. Either would make an 8 episode series that would completely go off the rails in episode 5, ending with a black woman lecturing all of us on homophobia and racism. Played by Gabby S.

[quote]The Dyatlov Party, of course!

The nudity is integral to the story!

R19 Wouldn’t it need to be a trans woman of color?

How about "Ryan Murphy Self Immolates On Live TV!"?

How about "Darren Criss Self Sucks On Live TV!"?

[R19] I know you're being humorous but you've hit the nail on the head as to why Ryan Murphy is uniquely awful. He subverts the truth of whatever subject matter he's depicting to to conform and pander to whatever woke, trendy, nonsense notions are blowing around in the zeitgeist. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if he stuck to original, contemporary content but he believes himself to be an auteur with a great command of arts and culture - which he definitely is not. I couldn't watch 5 minutes of FEUD for this reason. He didn't understand the characters, their mindset, the world that produced them or how they actually approached their lives. Corny woke feminism was more important to him than Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. I hope he rots in hell because he ruined a truly great idea - the DIVINE FEUD book by Shaun Considine made the rounds of Hollywood for years and people like Diana Rigg were interested. He turned out a travesty that should have been a hilarious and fascinating entertainment. He's a fucking Barbarian.

R22 and r24 are the only sane voices here. Ryan Murphy needs to stop making television shows - he’s not very good at it!

r25 Hey I started this thread with the same opinion of Ryan Murphy. Give me credit too!

He needs to do the dt club kid scene story, i.e Michael Alig

Behind the scenes at the Judy Garland Show.

A 10-part investigative series to uncover who really molested Lorna Luft.

Liza's story would be fun

Caligula's reign

Dahmer or Gacy

I second Michael Alig and the club kids of the 90s.

I think there needs to be a glam factor. Like. Versace and O.J. were celebrity stories. So who would fit that scenario.

R33 I third it. Yes. Club Kids murder. Gruesome murder with drugs.

R33 Lots of skinny twinks for him to cast, should be right up his alley. It would be interesting seeing it as black comedy, especially the meth fueled dismembering of the body.

The fall of the roman empire.

The Making of GWTW with Lea Michele as Scarlett.

The murder of Ramon Novarro. As long as Darren Criss doesn't play Ramon.

The Caitlyn Jenner Story.

Omg R40!

R24= Disenchanted Jessica Lange troll .

The 1889 Cleveland Street scandal. British aristocrats visiting a brothel full of underage rentboys

Michael Jackson, beginning to end, soup to nuts.

The story of Abraham Lincoln and his lawyer buddy he slept in the same bed with for 4 Years . While Mary Todd bided her time .

I always say Murphy should be a TV "birth parent". Have the idea, write the pilot, the bible and then give it to someone else to raise. He's a great idea man, terrible at execution.

That said, after the meh first few episodes of Dirty John: Betty Broderick, he needs to do OUR BETTY justice with the Bella Stumbo book.

r44, I'll play Michael.

The Connie Francis Story

[quote]What’s the Dyatlov Party, [[R1]]?

[quote]I have no idea. We never discuss it here, so I'm in the dark. A simple search would turn up nothing!

All you have to do is Wikipedia it. Here's the best explanation:

^^ Oops, sorry, r5. I just realized you were being sarcastic. Mea culpa! ^^

My True Life Hollywood Story has all the elements of a great TV mini series. Luckily, I am available to play myself as a toddler through my current age of early 30s

Phil and Ronnie Spector’s marriage

The Black Dahlia murder. But expand it to include the seedy underworld of starlets desperate for stardom in the early 40s, the casting couch, the predators.

Let's face it anything he's going to ruin. I would just settle for American Horror story to be scary again.

Courtney Love's feud with Madonna

I'm a bit obsessive about this, maybe more than a bit, but BYZANTIUM. Theodora and Justinian and the whole damn thing, including the Nike Riots. SOMEBODY DO THIS DAMN THING. so I can rest.

The guy who played the lead in Hogan’s Hero and all his kinky sex stuff and then was murdered his buddy who had the hots for him and was rejected

The Anna Nicole Smith story

OK,OK. I think I have struck GOLD!!!!! The death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Yes! Now that ought to be like, absolute gold. She pissed off a lot of people, and she was having an affair with Johnny Raye who was insane and he was also closeted Gay. And she stumbled on some dirt related to the Kennedy assassination and everyone believes she was murdered. So you have glamour, you have celebrities galore, and you have a suspicious death.

OR : Speaking of the Kennedy assassination, how about doing something on the death of Marilyn Monroe? Now that would sizzle.

Go on You Tube and search for Johnny Ray. I'm telling you he was all the rage back then. I've linked to one of his more popular ditties. Cry.

He had some other tune he used to sing where he would actually break down and cry on TV. Ed Sullivan,I'm told, just love it. Ray was nuts. Certifiable. I think he was an alcoholic and a pill popper and he was very high maintenance. I discovered him when I read a biography of Kilgallen.

Johnnie Ray was the original queeny teen idol

Fuck that, bring back Nip/Tuck.

Fanny Cradock's 1976 bitchy takedown of Gwen Troake's cooking and the fallout. Call it Fanny Gets Canceled and get Jessica Lange to shave her eyebrows off

How about the death of Sal Mineo? Wasn't he murdered in an alley or something?

Sal Mineo's death was briefly dramatised in season one of American Horror Story

His story would be good if Murphy went the anthology route with Hollywood and dropped the wish fulfilment bent of season one

Come on Eileen starts with Johnny Rae.

Who could play Mineo? Criss?

The Dyatlov Pass shown as a gay PNP orgy gone horribly wrong.

Fued: Ina Garten & T.R.

^ starring Kathy Bates and Jay Harrington

The UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill.

The Kathy Griffin photo fiasco might be interesting. I think Murphy would do a good job with a mini series about the whole over the top reaction and histrionics over what was an obviously fake photo.

I would love to see him do something about the Mattachine Society and the gay rights movement from its beginnings in 1950 and culminating in Stonewall.

[quote]story of the Donner Party.

OP, it could be titled "Donner Kebab."

I would like him to do a movie about the Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane, Johnny Stompanato death. I can't believe that no one has done a movie about it. I think it could be even better than Feud, but done as a one or two part movie.

Who should play Lana? Reese Witherspoon or Naomi Watts maybe.

It's too bad that Sharon Stone is too old now because she would have been wonderful as Lana.

R75, check out the rather fabulous 1964 flick WHERE LOVE HAS GONE.

Joey Heatherton IS Cheryl Crane. Bonus special guest starring appearance by Miss Bette Davis. Frocks by Edith Head.

Ryan couldn't do better than this.

The life of William Haines

When my pappy fell into the Easy Cheese vat in back '94

I like r59's idea. It's obscure enough that people would be intrigued, and yet it brings in a lot of famous names and events.

R59 A Kilgallen mini series would be absolutely fantastic. I would pass on a Marilyn centered series, I think many people have grown weary of hearing about her. I wonder who Murphy could cast as Kilgallen, or Johnny Ray.

The real question is who would play Arlene Francis and would she be an actress from the legitimate theater?

OMG the LAna Turner story with the murder would have been a great movie. Yeah! That resonates. And her daughter Cheryl is a lesbian.

R72 That might be fun especially if it’s done with a camp sensibility along the lines of a film by John Waters and Kathy is played by a drag queen, maybe Lypsinka?

A one off TV special of Ryan and Sarah "The Next Meryl Streep" Paulson playing Russian Roulette.

Linda Cardellini as Dorothy; Colton Haynes as Johnnie Ray; Cate Blanchett as Arlene. Special Guest Appearance by Jim Parsons as Bennett Cerf. Evan Peters in Recurring Featured Role as "Johnnie Ray's Hustler."

The 504 Sit In

It would not be a long one, maybe three episodes at most, but the story of what happened on the 57 Bus when two teenager’s lives intersected and an economically depressed public school African American boy set the skirt of a fluid private school boy on fire is very compelling and Mock would be just the compassionate writer director able to do the story justice.

Liza could play herself recreating her Mystery Guest appearance on What's My Line?

The death of Ryan Murphy.

The Bryan Singer Story

I wish RM would have done a Betty Broderick limited series. It would turned out better than the one that's on USA.

It's time for Sarah Paulson to play Amelia Earhart. About a decade has passed since her story was told on film. Another telling is due.

I've said it before, I say it again: Ryan Murphy makes me EMBARRASSED TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL.

Clueless straight friends are always saying: Oh, you'll just LOVE it!!!!!

Meanwhile, I'm searching for my barf bag.....

The Life and Times of Miss Faye Dunaway, culminating in the “little homosexual boy” incident. Too bad Darren has sworn of gay roles, I’m sure he could have added much gravitas to the character.

Feud: Faye vs. Everyone and Everything.

I'm Keyser Soze: The Kevin Spacey Story. Starring Cody Fern as Groped Bartender and Darren Criss as Groped Cater Waiter. With Matt Bomer as Evan Lowenstein.

Dylan Geick, the Whore of Babylon: The Days and Nights of a Jock Sugar Baby.

A ten part series examining why Daphne Zuniga was sitting next to Steven Spielberg at the Golden Globes.

The Jane Fonda/Ted Turner story!

Sarah Paulson & Dylan McDermott!

Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend starring Taylor Lautner and special guest Lady G in the role of “Fluffer.”

A Lady G series would be a riot.

Perhaps Lady Rubio as Lady G's love interest?

I was thinking the Lady G story might just be kind of disjointed and a pointless mess with just a few naked guys to keep it interesting and then realized how right all of you are.

Errol Flynn's grandson (see link)

Rita Hayworth had a cute grandson who committed suicide. Clark Gable had a cute grandson who OD'd

Thanks you for that link, r88. That book looks really interesting, so I just ordered it for my Kindle.

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The life, times and call boys of an unnamed, fictional of course, Senator from South Carolina.

A limited series on Jim McGreevey.

^ Darren Criss IS Golan

NONE.

Don’t consider Ryan Murphy worth my time or money.

Would prefer someone with talent.

^PS: Also believe he has enabled abusive behavior (see:

Lea Michele

Emma Roberts

Billy Lourd)

[quote] What Event in History Would YOU Like to See Ryan Murphy RUIN into a Limited Series?

FIFY

Why, so it can start to decline midway and until the unwatchable nonsensical ending?

The rise and fall of Miramax and Harvey Weinstein

r114 YES!

The Dr. Sam Sheppard case would be good for American Crime Story.

I Hate Brenda: The Shannen Doherty Story

r118, I would find I Love Pru: The Doherty Apologia far more interesting.

For a true crime angle, maybe the 2001 Darmouth College murders.

Susan Richardson: America's Sweetheart

The signing of the Magna Carta in 1215.

r117 I thought F. Lee Bailey represented Sam Shepard the actor in a DUI. I've seen The People vs. OJ several times where he mentions it and only recently found out that was not the case.

The William Desmond Taylor murder might be something Ryan Murphy would do well.

Ah, how about his retirement from television and producing POS shows.

r125 Who would play the very not gay Darren Criss?

Evan Lysacek will make his acting debut as Darren Criss. They are both equally heterosexual.

None of these.

MAKE HIM STOP!!!!

Dirk Bogarde and Tony Forwood: a 40 year glass closeted relationship. . So much potential to get a glimpse of great directors and actors of the period But the focus has to be the relationship between Bogarde and his manager/partner Tony Forwood

Cary Grant.

Queen Mary crew members. It's just sitting there.

r129, agree with that one! They were a handsome couple.

How many of the Queen Mary crew were queens and Marys?

Mistinquette and Josephine (Baker)

Chez Bricktop

Another Feud: Livie de Havilland v Joan Fontaine. After liv passes tho so she doesn’t sue again. What a crank. He should do it out of spite. But it would be a good story.

I want to see him pull out all the stops to cover Left Shark the way Left Shark has never been covered before.

R124, yes, he would have the murder done by an inserted fictional character, would have Taylor's houseboy, played by Billy Porter, organizing masked gay orgies, and Mary Miles Minter, played by Lady Gaga, mouldering away in a Norma Desmond style mansion, and visited by ghosts of actors and actresses she never worked with (Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Tate, and Ramon Navarro, just so Ryan could focus on the art deco dildo).

The second guy from the right looks exactly like the queen when she was young/Andrew.

I wouldn't be surprised if Murphy is behind this thread to steal ideas. He's a Philistine and totally incompetent as a dramatist - but that doesn't seem to bother Netflix or a certain swath of audience.

r139 I wish!

Phil Spector’s life

Why would anyone wish Ryan Murphy to turn a historical event into a mediocre pile of shit!

Because I want to see every time Darren Criss tries to play str8.

DIVORCE: Ivana v. The Donald with support from Marla.

Actually op this would be perfect.

R144 Feel free to run with it.

The Spanish Inquisition

Fued: Oprah vs. Ivanla

I need to go back and read this entire thread, but I stopped at R2 -- the Kenley Players. I'm sad I didn't know about it, but now I do! And Paul Lynde played in "Don't Drink the Water" in 1970 and 1979; "Mother is Engaged" in 1974; and "My Daughter is Rated X" in 1973. The last one sounds... interesting! Do we know many of the backstories or backstage shenanigans?? Do tell, someone!

Answered Prayers. I win.

Lake Piru: The Drowning Death of Naya Rivera

Feud: Lucy vs. Ethel.

The time they wore the same dress to the benefit talent show

Showgirl: The Elizabeth Berkley Story

"The Kathy Griffin photo fiasco might be interesting."

You must be 17.

None. He should be run out of Hollywood on a rail for being a racist hack.

Feud: Eve Plumb vs. Maureen McCormick

Sub Plot: Robert Reed is a pain the ass.

That movie already exists.

human trafficking at south of the border in sc.

Feud: Geraldine Ferraro vs Barack Obama

I want a true docudrama of "Pissing with Putin in Helsinki." It's an S &M show

I want him to be Pharaoh Akhnaton!

Or his Queen Nefertiti!

Or both....

He needs to become a woman so he can stop embarrassing gay men.

Bette Midler's time performing at the Continental Baths. Seriously, I think he could do a great job weaving fact and fiction to put together a good show about the 70s and anchor it around the bathhouses

The murder of William Desmond Taylor.....

OMG, the best story for him to do would be Jean Harlow. So tragic. And Paul Burn her closeted Gay husband. Even to this day, that Carroll Baker movie Harlow is still one of my favorites.

I'd like to see him do the Brat Pack, just for the 80s nostalgia.

The End of Ryan Murphy's Career.

The near-future identifies as history, thank you...

Dakota Fanning, fresh from her triumph in the Alienist, would be cast as ....HARLOW

Who would play the gay black butler from the William Desmond Taylor case? The police took him to a graveyard and had people dressed as ghosts to try to spook him into a confession, because they had a stereotype that black people were superstitious or something.

Billy Porter, probably.

Has anyone mentioned Peg Entwistle?

He should turn The Mommie Dearest Diaries by Rutanya Alda into a series.

I read it and Faye didn't come off that bad - Rutanya came off as a complainer.

Yes, Rutanya, Faye didn't stay to stand in for your scenes and sometimes she was late BECAUSE SHE HAD A NEWBORN INFANT AT HOME.

Ever heard of priorities Alda?