FX has formally ordered The Magnificence, a brand new collection from Ryan Murphy, starring Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, and Ashton Kutcher. Primarily based on the 2016 graphic novel by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, the collection can be co-created, written, and govt produced by Murphy and Matt Hodgson. Manufacturing is predicted to start this fall.
The Magnificence is about in a world the place an STD, often called “the Magnificence,” causes these contaminated to turn into bodily engaging however in the end results in deadly penalties. The story follows two detectives, Drew Foster and Kara Vaughn, as they navigate a harmful net of political corruption, federal brokers, and a deadly mercenary. Casting for the feminine lead remains to be underway, with Peters doubtless enjoying one of many detectives.
This marks one other high-profile collaboration between Murphy and Peters, following their work on Dahmer: Monster – The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and American Horror Story. Peters, Ramos, and Pope will even function govt producers on the collection, which is able to span 11 episodes in its first season.
Kutcher, whose function is imagined to be a tech billionaire, joins the ensemble forged in his newest tv venture, following his current work in Your Place or Mine and Vengeance. Ramos, contemporary off his roles in Twisters and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and Pope, recognized for Hollywood and The Inspection, spherical out the forged.
Produced by twentieth Tv and Ryan Murphy Tv, The Magnificence continues Murphy’s streak of initiatives underneath his Disney deal.
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