Ryan Murphy‘s The Shards has formally been picked as much as collection at FX, Deadline can reveal solely. Igby Rigney (The Fall of the Home of Usher), Homer Gere (The Company) and Graham Campbell will be part of Kaia Gerber as a part of the main forged. The undertaking, from twentieth Tv and Ryan Murphy Productions, is predicated on Bret Easton Ellis‘ prep college thriller novel of the identical title.
First unveiled as a serialized audiobook earlier than hitting bookstands in 2023, The Shards is a darkish coming-of-age story with semi-autobiographical sides for Ellis. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, the story follows a 17-year-old model of Ellis throughout his remaining yr on the elite Buckley prep college. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new pupil, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the actions of a serial killer referred to as The Trawler.
Rigney will painting Ellis. Gere, whose father is Richard Gere, has been forged as Robert Mallory, and Campbell as Thom Wright. Robert and Thom are key characters within the novel.
Deadline introduced the undertaking was in improvement at FX again in Might, with Max Winkler set to direct. The sale got here months after Murphy had teamed with Ellis to adapt his novel for TV earlier this yr. Beforehand, Ellis tried to get a unique incarnation of The Shards off the bottom at HBO since 2023. He was hooked up as a author to that model, which he was to govt produce alongside Nick Corridor, Brian Younger, and Kathleen McCaffrey. Status filmmakers Luca Guadagnino (Challengers) and Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Situation) each flirted with directing the undertaking for a time. Finally, it didn’t go ahead.
Rising to fame within the Eighties as one of many defining voices of Technology X, along with his debut novel Much less Than Zero, revealed when he was 21 years previous, Ellis stays finest identified for American Psycho, which Guadagnino has been set to direct for Lionsgate, in a reimagining of the 2000 traditional starring Christian Bale.
The Shards shall be produced by twentieth Tv in affiliation with studio-based Ryan Murphy Productions. Murphy, Ellis and Winkler govt produce alongside Nick Corridor, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Younger. A author has but to be introduced.
Campbell is repped by CAA, Nameless Content material, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Rigney is repped by Buchwald, Cover Media Companions and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Gere is repped by WME, Brookside Artist Administration and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.