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Jeremy Pope's Message for Ryan Murphy astatine Globes
At this rate, it's unclear erstwhile Ryan Murphy finds clip to sleep.
The mega-producer—who was honored with the Carol Burnett Award astatine the 2023 Golden Globes connected Jan. 10—is connected the cusp of opening filming the archetypal installment of American Sports Story.
The bid is "heading toward production," FX president John Landgraf said astatine the network's Television Critics' Association sheet Jan. 12, according to Deadline.
"We person a reasonably implicit acceptable of scripts for American Sports Story by Stu Zicherman," Landgraf continued. "We haven't dated that." In different words: It's inactive going to beryllium a while.
Zicherman is champion known for his enactment connected The Americans and precocious wrote episodes of Alaska Daily and The Shrink Next Door.
The archetypal play of American Sports Story—described by the web arsenic "a scripted anthological constricted bid focusing connected a salient lawsuit involving a sports fig and re-examines it done the prism of today's world, telling that communicative from aggregate perspectives"—will absorption connected erstwhile New England Patriots prima Aaron Hernandez.
Based connected the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc, the bid volition showcase the melodramatic emergence and autumn of Hernandez, who was found blameworthy of first-degree execution successful 2015 and pronounced dormant astatine the property of 27 aft being recovered hanging successful his situation compartment successful April 2017.
As for play 4 of Murphy's American Crime Story anthology series, well, that hold is going to beryllium adjacent longer.
"We person different things successful development," Landgraf explained, "but we haven't planned and said, ‘Yes, this is the 4th play of American Crime Story.'"
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The archetypal 3 installments of American Crime Story focused connected the execution proceedings of O.J. Simpson, the execution of Gianni Versace and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
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