Ryan Murphy sets ‘The Shards’ series adaptation at FX

I'd rather watch a series by Ryan Murphy, called "The Sharts."

Now THAT would be fun!

First foisting Kim Kardashian on us and now Kaia Gerber. My, how the mighty has fallen since Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates

I'd like to see him take a crack at The Informers. It's the only BEE book I liked but the movie was terrible.

Minus the vile animal abuse, I hope.

Ryan Murphy and Dick Wolf are two of the biggest hacks in television right now.

[quote] Ryan Murphy and Dick Wolf are two of the biggest hacks in television right now.

Don't forget me!

So is Kaia Gerber playing Susan?

Who will play Robert Mallory? Whoever plays him will have to be extremely handsome.

I couldn’t finish the book, it was just self indulgent bullshit. BEE has a certain writing style that was fun to read for a moment in time spanning the mid 1980s to the very early 90s.

I liked it. I thought his “Imperial Bedrooms” was absolutely terrible so this was a good return to form.

“The Rules of Attraction” is still my favorite by him.

Ryan Murphy is the number-one employer of nepo babies in Hollywood. He seems to be addicted to them.

Talent not required.

How is Brett doing these days? Better than fellow literary brat packers Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz?

Ellis still publishes, has a podcast, and seems to be doing ok.

I think Janowitz is the only one whose life seems shitty if you go by her memoir. It ends with her almost destitute and being sued by her brother.

I thought the show would be about meth.

R10: I'm all about equity and inclusion!

I’m available for the ingenue role.

I loved the book. I about half way through my second reading. I was hopeful about the HBO adaption, dammit. At least Ryan won’t skimp on the gay content, but the sex and nudity wouldn’t have been limited by censors if it was on HBO. I am not sure the FX/Murphy combo is the best avenue, but I am hopeful they will get it right.

What hot nepo babies will play Bret and Robert? What aging male actor will play the girlfriend’s dad who fucks Bret?

I wonder how Todd is doing and if they're still together.

Hopefully Sidney Sweeney as Murder Victim # 1.

I REALLY enjoyed the audio book so I will definitely watch this (but with low expectations). Also, I kinda hope they resolve the ending better in an adaptation.

I thought Ellis got cancelled ages ago. Didn’t seem to affect Hollywood’s affection for him one bit.

I loved this book. It’s over-wrought and over-the-top and so much fun. Hopeful that this will be one of the good Ryan Murphy projects.

Too bad FX won’t be able to show Bret rimming and fingering all those hot guys.

Why did it go from HBO to Ryan Murphy/FX?

Prepare for one or two maybe even three good episodes then ⤵️

I’m expecting episode 4 will introduce Elvis clones and invaders from space.

r23 HBO's financial involvement hinged on Guadagnino directing the series. He then pulled out, plus HBO made Ryan do an expensive rewrite, to the point that he barely recognised his own script. And so because it wasn't a prestige enough project anymore, it went to FX.

That Kaia Gerbil keeps getting acting work rattles me to my core.

Why would Ellis have been cancelled?

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R26, it went to FX because Murphy stepped in and he has a deal with Disney. FX, which swept the Emmys last year with The Bear and Shogun, is as prestigious an outlet as any at this point.

He didn't "step in", HBO said no thanks to his vision, especially without Guadagnino's involvement. Hence the extensive rewrites.

Remember when Bret was fangirling over the frau who wrote the Twilight fanfic (Fifty Shades)? It was all so embarrassing.

R31, are you talking about Ryan or Bret?

R28, his politics.

I like the scene in the book where Robert breaks into Bret's house and pretends to rape him.......

SPOILER:

I didn’t like the ending of the book, it was too unresolved. And I don’t like how Bret didn’t seem to have any remorse about being wrong about Robert Mallory. Because of him, Robert ended up dead. What he did was worse than what George Zimmerman did to Trayvon Martin.

R30 yes - I have to go back and read the ending again.....maybe the miniseries will clear it all up

"Kaia Gerber starring" are words no-one but her mother wants to hear.

Bret's yearbook. I couldn't find an In Memoriam page. But the quarterback and football captain that year was Michael Landon (son of Little Joe).

This link may work.

Murphy will probably try to legitimize Kevin Spacey by casting him as the gay producer.

He's supposed to be old enough to be his father not his GRANDFATHER!

Ryan Murphy is the Andy Cohen of Bad Television.

Isn’t Andy Cohen the Andy Cohen of Bad Televison?

R43 wins the internet today.

[quote] one of the good Ryan Murphy projects

Oh my sides! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

R43 A Double Negative...fer Sure!

Bret and Robert have been cast! RM loves a Nepo Baby..

Now I’m wondering if Kaia Gerber is playing someone other than one of the high school students. She looks way older than than these guys.

[quote]Homer James Jigme Gere

The fuck kinda name is that?

Even though she’s actually 2 years younger than both Gere and Rigney. Maybe she can still pull off playing a teen.

The Gere kid really does have a demonic beauty about him—perfect for Robert.

Um, wow, okay. As the dumb Zoomers would say, let him cook, let him cook...

Fuck me.

R49 she plays teens all the time. Shes very young. She just looks mature. She’s a beautiful girl.

Graham is cute also.

Who are all these little fruit pies?

And how long before Ryan Murphy's casting couch gets the MeToo treatment?

jesus those names are terrible.

Is Miss Ellis MAGA too?

Igby Rigney? Homer James Jigme Gere?

White trash galore.

Miss Igby is FTM.

Bret Easton Ellis thinks you’re overreacting to Donald Trump

Bret Easton Ellis needs to jam more coke up his stretched-out boarding school asshole and go die on top of a rentboy. Joyless old queen.

Nobody gives a shit.

r58 No, he's not. He just has one of those nips that most teenage boys have at some point, but which you start losing when you exit adolescence. I still have them too for whatever reason and I'm obviously very self-conscious about it.

I appreciate that these guys look passably like high school seniors.

I can’t believe Richard Gere’s son and Cindy Crawford’s daughter will be starring together. The Nepo Baby craze has reached the singularity.

Christ, Ms Murphy must be so tickled at casting Cindy and Richard’s spawn - the PR campaign writes itself Squeaaaaaal

R61 What the fuck are you talking about?