{"id":14964,"date":"2025-07-16T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14964\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:38:08","slug":"fxs-the-shards-casts-its-three-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14964\/","title":{"rendered":"FX’s The Shards casts its three leads"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Shards, the new FX series from Ryan Murphy that\u2019s based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, was developing with Kaia Gerber already attached, but according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the three leads have now been filled as the series moves forward. Igby Rigney, of The Midnight Club, Homer Gere and Graham Campbell are now on board to portray a young Bret Easton Ellis, Robert Mallory and Thom Wright. The series will be directed by Max Winkler, who has worked on many Muprhy projects. He\u2019s helmed episodes of\u00a0American Horror Story, American Horror Stories, The Watcher,\u00a0Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,\u00a0Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and\u00a0Grotesquerie.<\/p>\n

The series is yet to attach a writer, but Winkler, Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young are on board to executive produce with Murphy and Ellis. The Shards\u00a0is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that follows a 17-year-old version of Ellis during his final year at Buckley prep school. When the enigmatic new student Robert Mallory arrives on campus, Ellis suspects he might be connected to the nearby serial killer known as The Trawler. The story was initially released on Ellis\u2019 Patreon in 2020 as a serialized audiobook, but was published as a novel in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Shards\u00a0was previously in development at HBO, with Luca Guadagnino<\/a> (Challengers) and Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario) each considering directing the project. There were even rumblings that Jacob Elordi<\/a> (Saltburn) was being eyed to star, but it ultimately fell apart due to creative differences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were invested in The Shards at HBO, from January to September, until we parted ways, and it became an extremely frustrating experience, and what we thought we were able to do we were told that we can\u2019t,\u201d Ellis said (via\u00a0World of Reel<\/a>). \u201cThe show that we sold, through whatever machinations were going through at Warners Bros, was sadly not going to be that show anymore.\u201c<\/p>\n

Ellis added that the project had started to move in a direction he didn\u2019t approve of. \u201cI didn\u2019t just want to get the thing made, I also wanted it to be good,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted it to be what my version of good was. This had all been promised to me when we made the deal, and it was just not happening. I really felt like eight months of the year had been wasted. I was disappointed and bitter. I said never again. I\u2019m never going to do this again.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shards, the new FX series from Ryan Murphy that\u2019s based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[14317,88,11492,6842,14318,11494,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-14964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bret-easton-ellis","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fx","11":"tag-horror","12":"tag-kaia-gerber","13":"tag-ryan-murphy","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}