Ryan Murphy Taking On Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘The Shards’ for FX

Ryan Murphy’s next project will travel back in the early 1980s.

The mega producer is developing a drama based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel The fragmentsthat takes the author’s secondary schools in Los Angeles as inspiration. Kaia Gerber is attached to Star in the project, with Max Winkler ready to direct. Disney’s twentieth television, where Murphy is located, is the study.

The representatives of FX and the 20th television declined to comment.

The fragments It is established in the early 1980s and contains some autobiographical elements for Ellis. It focuses on Bret, a student of an elite preparation school (that is the autobiographical part) whose world is affected by the arrival of a new mysterious student, who coincides with the murders of a serial killer. Ellis first launched The fragments As audiobook through its podcast before publishing it in 2023.

Murphy has been surrounding the project for a few months: Ellis initially had a series based on The fragments In the development of HBO, but that version separated from creative differences. As The Hollywood Reporter Observed in February, after the HBO project stagnated, Murphy began the conversations to produce a version of the program through his television Ryan Murphy.

Both Gerber and Winkler have worked with Murphy before. Gerber has appeared in American horror story and his branch American horror storieswhile Winkler has directed episodes of both series along with Feud, the observer, Grotesquerie and Monsters: The story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez.

Murphy, Ellis and Winkler will produce the FX project with Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young.

Gerber’s action loans also include Bottoms, Palm Royale of Apple TV+and the newly released video. She is represented by CAA, Entertainment360, DNA Model Management, Sloane Offer and Wolf Kasteler Pr.

Murphy is with Caa and lawyer Paul Hastings.

Deadline First reported the news.