Watch Darren Criss try to make it in the Golden Age of Hollywood in Netflix’s trailer for the Ryan Murphy Netflix limited series, Hollywood.
Hollywood is described as Ryan Murphy’s love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown, and is a limited, seven episode ensemble series lead by Emmy award-winning, American Crime Story and GLEE actor, Darren Criss, Grammy and Tony award-winning singer/actress Patti LuPone, and Ready or Not breakout star, Samara Weaving.
According to the official description for the series, Hollywood will follow group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it.
Each character will offer a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender, and sexuality that continue to this day.
Provocative and incisive, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood will expose and examine decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.
Executive Producer Ian Brennan told Variety in an interview that the show “rewrites the Hollywood ending” and called it a “delightful fantasy to write.”
Check out the trailer for Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood below!
In addition to casting Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, and Samara Weaving, Hollywood will likewise feature Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming, BlacKkKlansman) as Camille, David Corenswet (The Politician) as Jack, Holland Taylor (The Practice) as Ellen Kincaid, Jeremy Pope (Ain’t Too Proud) as Archie, Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) as Ernie, Emmy winner Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) as Henry Wilson, Jake Picking (Top Gun: Maverick) as Rock Hudson, and Joe Mantello (Wicked) as Dick.
The series is co-created and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, who also produced Glee and Scream Queens. Alexis Martin Woodall, Darren Criss, and Janet Mock will also be executive producing.
Janet Mock, a producer and writer known for 2018’s Pose, Ryan Murphy’s 2019 Netflix series The Politician, and the upcoming 2020 Devs, is likewise set to write and direct the series.
All seven episodes of Hollywood will premiere on May 1.
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