Evan Peters and Ryan Murphy are set to reunite for The Beauty, a new TV series for FX Networks.
Ryan Murphy is arguably TV’s busiest producer right now. The Glee co-creator has just released another controversial entry into his Monster franchise, with a season that focuses on the Menendez brothers.
Variety reports that Murphy has already set up his next project and it’s going to be a reunion. Murphy is heading back to the network FX with The Beauty, a series based on Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley’s Image Comics series of the same name.
The series, which FX has ordered 11 episodes of, will star Murphy’s longtime collaborator Evan Peters. Anthony Ramos, Ashton Kutcher and Jeremy Pope will also star and all will act as executive producers as well. Matthew Hodgson is serving as a co-creator alongside Murphy.
It’s still early days, so there’s no official plot description yet, but the Image Comics website says this about the comic-books: Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is attainable. The vast majority of the population has taken advantage of it, but Detectives Foster and Vaughn will soon discover it comes at a terrible price.
Peters has appeared in several of Murphy’s projects, including American Horror Story and most recently Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. The series gathered a lot of criticism for its portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer, but Peters won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as Dahmer.
The release of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has also drawn criticism, including from the subjects themselves, and Murphy revealed he didn’t speak to the brothers, who are currently incarcerated for the murder of their parents, prior to writing the show. “I have no interest in talking to them,” Murphy told Variety.
