Medication, intercourse and homicide are the backdrop to “The Shards,” Ryan Murphy’s upcoming drama sequence primarily based on the thriller novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
FX has launched a trailer for the present, which can premiere with two episodes on August 5 on the cable channel and Hulu.
“The Shards” follows a bunch of rich youngsters indulging within the excesses of Eighties personal faculty tradition in Los Angeles as a serial killer closes in. When the arrival of a brand new scholar, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), coincides with a sequence of grisly murders throughout the San Fernando Valley, the narrator, Bret (Igby Rigney), seeks to unravel the thriller earlier than it is too late for him and his mates. Within the trailer, Bret tries to persuade his mates that Robert is a “psychopath” as horrific violence closes in on their close-knit circle.
The sequence additionally stars Kaia Gerber as Susan Reynolds, Hayes Warner as Debbie Schaffer, and Graham Campbell as Thom Wright. Moreover, Wes Bentley stars as Terry Schaffer, Evan Rachel Wooden stars as Liz Schaffer, and Jordan Roth stars as Steven Reinhardt.
The sequence is co-created by Murphy (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” “Love Story”) and Ellis (“Much less Than Zero,” “American Psycho”), who wrote the screenplays primarily based on Ellis’ 2023 autofiction bestseller. They govt produce alongside Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Ellis, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Tanase Popa, Nick Corridor, Michael Uppendahl, Max Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Younger. The sequence is produced by twentieth Tv in affiliation with Ryan Murphy Tv.
Watch the trailer for “The Shards” beneath.