Ryan Murphy and Kaia Gerber Developing FX Series Based on Bret Easton Ellis Novel ‘The Shards’

Ryan Murphy and FX are in early development on a series adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel “The Shards.” Kaia Gerber is attached to star.

“The Shards” is a semi-autobiographical telling of Ellis’ upbringing in 1980s Los Angeles. The novel’s official description via Penguin Random House imprint Knopf reads, “17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them — and Bret in particular — with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation.”

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