{"id":233555,"date":"2025-10-30T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233555\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:28:09","slug":"the-shards-evan-rachel-wood-joins-ryan-murphy-bret-easton-ellis-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233555\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Shards&#8217; &#8211; Evan Rachel Wood Joins Ryan Murphy &#038; Bret Easton Ellis Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho\u00a0author\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cThe Shards\u201d is coming soon to FX, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/evan-rachel-wood-ryan-murphy-fx-series-the-shards-cast-1236600821\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> reports this afternoon that Emmy nominee Evan Rachel Wood (\u201cWestworld\u201d) has joined the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Graham Campbell, and Hayes Warner also star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/ryan-murphy-the-shards-cast-wes-bentley-fx-1236564542\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UPDATE: Variety reports that Wes Bentley has also joined the cast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (\u201cThe Ed Gein Story\u201d) is attached to direct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho\u00a0author\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cThe Shards\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98955,96,98956,2839,18859,98957,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-233555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bret-easton-ellis","tag-entertainment","tag-evan-rachel-wood","tag-movies","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-the-shards","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}