{"id":91397,"date":"2025-08-23T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91397\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:40:09","slug":"hayes-warner-joins-cast-of-ryan-murphys-fx-series-the-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91397\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayes Warner Joins Cast Of Ryan Murphy\u2019s FX Series \u2018The Shards\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Hayes Warner<\/a> has been set as a series regular of Ryan Murphy\u2019s FX<\/a> TV series The Shards<\/a>, sources tell Deadline. The project, from\u00a020th Television\u00a0and Ryan Murphy Productions, is based on Bret Easton Ellis\u2018 prep school thriller novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst unveiled as a serialized audiobook before hitting bookstands in 2023,\u00a0The Shards\u00a0is a dark coming-of-age tale with semi-autobiographical facets for Ellis. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, the story follows a 17-year-old version of Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character\u2019s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner will play Debbie Shaffer, a rich prep school girl with the right connects, we hear.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe joins the previously announced cast that includes Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Graham Campbell, and Hayes Warner.<\/p>\n

\n\tFX and 20th Television declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline announced the project was in development at FX back in May<\/a>, with Max Winkler set to direct. The sale came months after Murphy had teamed with Ellis to adapt his novel for TV earlier this year. Previously, Ellis tried to get\u00a0a different incarnation of\u00a0The Shards<\/a>\u00a0off the ground at HBO since 2023. He was attached as a writer to that version, which he was to executive produce alongside Nick Hall, Brian Young, and Kathleen McCaffrey. Prestige filmmakers Luca Guadagnino (Challengers) and Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario) both\u00a0flirted with directing the project<\/a>\u00a0for a time. Ultimately, it didn\u2019t go forward.<\/p>\n

\n\tRising to fame in the 1980s as one of the defining voices of Generation X, with his debut novel\u00a0Less Than Zero, published when he was 21 years old, Ellis remains best known for\u00a0American Psycho, which Guadagnino has been set to direct for Lionsgate, in a reimagining of the 2000 classic starring Christian Bale.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shards\u00a0will be produced by 20th Television in association with studio-based Ryan Murphy Productions. Murphy, Ellis and Winkler executive produce alongside Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young. A writer has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn and raised in New York City, singer and actress Hayes Warner is a graduate of Northwestern University\u2019s musical theater program. Named one of People\u2019s Emerging Artists to Watch, her music has climbed the Top 40 U.S. radio charts and garnered millions of streams across platforms worldwide. Outside of her solo career, Warner has composed music for Disney, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Fox.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner has written music for The Barbie Chronicles (Netflix), WWE, The Descendants Franchise (Disney), and Ferguson & Rebecca (Netflix). Warner is represented by CAA, Grytte Entertainment and Gang Tyre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Hayes Warner has been set as a series regular of Ryan Murphy\u2019s FX TV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,2112,53787,2128,348],"class_list":["post-91397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fx","tag-hayes-warner","tag-the-shards","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}