Another Ryan Murphy anthology is headed for FX. The inaugural season of Feud will premiere sometime in 2018.
On the heels of two back-to-back successful anthologies on FX, Ryan Murphy’s third anthology on the network has received a straight to series order. Unlike American Horror Story and most recently, American Crime Story: The People VS O.J. Simpson, Murphy’s latest, titled Feud will run for eight episodes. The first iteration of Feud will tell the story of the documented, you guessed it, feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? And who says gossip doesn’t sell? The film went on to become a hit and earn a few Oscars nominations in the aftermath. Susan Sarandon will play Betty Davis opposite Jessica Lange’s Crawford.
With this series green-lit it looks like Lange’s return to American Horror Story is getting slimmer and slimmer. When asked about Lange’s return in many, many interviews, both Murphy and Lange agreed that if the role was there for her, she would take it. It seems that she was holding out for Feud. Lange is currently on Broadway in the revival of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The play, with producing rights purchased by Ryan Murphy, was the first in a set of rights Murphy acquired to give Lange a new role. The pilot for Feud comes from Best Actress, a script by Jaffe Cohen and Michael Zam.
Set to join the ensemble are Stanley Tucci as Jack Warner, Judy Davis as Hedda Hopper, Alfred Molina as the director of the film, and Dominic Burgess as Victor Buono.
Production on the series will not begin until the fall of 2017, but Murphy has plenty keeping his mind occupied in the meantime. AHS was renewed for a sixth installment and Murphy and his writing partner and co-creator Brad Falchuck are hard at work teasing out two ideas for the series. Scream Queens also returns to Fox this fall and another installment of American Crime Story is teed up for 2017.
Source: THR
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