{"id":691454,"date":"2026-07-14T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:53:10","slug":"ryan-murphys-the-shards-trailer-teases-sex-drugs-a-missing-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691454\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards’ Trailer Teases Sex, Drugs & A Missing Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFX has dropped the first trailer for Ryan Murphy<\/a>\u2018s anticipated new coming-of-age drama\u00a0The Shards<\/a>,\u00a0based on\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>\u2018 prep school thriller novel, ahead of its August 5 debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer begins with Bret, played by Igby Rigney, pitch his latest story to his editor Terry (Wes Bentley). \u201cIt\u2019s about a group of young people,\u201d Bret reveals. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDoes it have sex in it, Terry (Bentley) asks, to which Bret (Igney) replies, \u201cYes.\u201d Pink cocaine.. male hookers?\u201d \u2018That too,\u201d Bret replies. \u201cEveryone loves a good coming-of-age story,\u201d says Terry. <\/p>\n

\n\tFirst unveiled as a serialized audiobook before hitting the shelves in 2023,\u00a0The Shards, from 20th Television and Ryan Murphy Productions,\u00a0is a dark coming-of-age tale with semi-autobiographical facets for Ellis. Set in Los Angeles 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\tThe official logline: Set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, the series follows a group of privileged high school seniors at an elite prep school as they navigate identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and the dangers lurking beneath the surface of American adolescence.<\/p>\n

\n\tRigney stars as Bret, an aspiring writer and keenly observant teenager whose reality begins to unravel with the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), per the official logline. Transferring in just before his senior year, Robert\u2019s appearance coincides with the growing terror of The Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Bret is his elite social circle, including Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber), Debbie Schaffer (Hayes Warner) and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell), a glamorous and deeply entangled group drawn into a life of wealth, beauty, parties and excess.\u00a0The promise of their youth is contrasted with the dark and cynical world of the adults surrounding them: Terry Schaffer (Wes Bentley), Liz Schaffer (Evan Rachel Wood) and Steven Reinhardt (Jordan Roth).<\/p>\n

\n\tGere\u2019s (son of Richard Gere) Robert Mallory and Wright\u2019s Graham Campbell are key characters in Ellis\u2019 novel.<\/p>\n

\n\tMurphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Ellis, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Tanase Popa, Nick Hall, Michael Uppendahl, Max Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young executive produce. The series is produced by 20th Television.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shards premieres August 5 on\u00a0FX<\/a>\u00a0and Hulu, as well as Disney+ internationally.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FX has dropped the first trailer for Ryan Murphy\u2018s anticipated new coming-of-age drama\u00a0The Shards,\u00a0based on\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis\u2018 prep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,8906,2839,18859,98957,7021,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-691454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fx","tag-movies","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-the-shards","tag-trailers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691454","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=691454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}