'The Shards' is Ryan Murphy's newest murder mystery starring sex, drugs and Kaia Gerber
Yahoo • • general
Key Points:
- FX will premiere The Shards, a teen murder mystery series produced by Ryan Murphy, on August 5, based on Bret Easton Ellis's 2023 novel set in 1981 Los Angeles, where privileged teens face a stalking killer.
- The show features a fictionalized version of Ellis, played by Igby Rigney, who suspects new student Robert Mallory, portrayed by Homer Gere, may be the killer known as The Trawler.
- The cast includes Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, and Evan Rachel Wood, with connections to former '80s celebrities Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere.
- The Shards is a fictional story with autobiographical elements, continuing Ellis's tradition of inserting himself into his novels, similar to his previous work Lunar Park.
- While The Shards is Ellis's first small-screen adaptation, several of his novels, including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho, have been adapted into films.
