The topics and casting of each season of Ryan Murphy‘s numerous successful anthology series are almost as suspenseful as the plot lines themselves turn out to be.
And while discussing the theme of the next American Crime Story with The Hollywood Reporter, Murphy let slip a pretty exciting development in the cast of American Horror Story.
Via THR:
When it comes to Murphy’s other FX anthologies, he’s currently casting an eighth season of American Horror Story (and, in classic Murphy fashion, reveals he’s “throwing in Joan Collins” and is “interested” in Anjelica Huston)
Meanwhile, he’s still working on Crime Story to follow the just-finished Versace.
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But there’s one story that’s already been optioned that he definitely won’t be telling right now: Monica Lewinsky’s White House sex scandal.
“I told her, ‘Nobody should tell your story but you, and it’s kind of gross if they do,'” Murphy recalls telling Lewinsky when he ran into her at a Hollywood party. “‘If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer and you should make all the goddamn money.'”
And don’t forget about Feud! That may or may not be centering around Charles and Diana next season.
Meanwhile, Murphy is working on the New York vogue ballroom-centered Pose for FX as well as at least two new series for Netflix.
Where’s he going to keep all those Emmys?
Brian
So, did the families in the OJ story, the Cunanan story, and the Bette and Joan stories make “all the goddamn money” instead of Ryan? What makes her story so special?
jpcolter
First of all, Monica isn’t a murderer like OJ or Cunanan. Second of all, Bette and Joan are both dead and their story is a well known public story. Monica’s story may or may not be known – except for the big points. If she tells her story, she should benefit.
Stenar
jpcolter, Brian was clearly referring to the families of OJ’s and Cunanan’s victims.
OzJosh
I think Murphy’s point is that Lewinsky *deserves* to make the money, given how she was demonised and brutalised by the media. Murderers and their families do not deserve to profit from crime, and in some countries there are laws preventing them from doing so. As for Bette and Joan: they are both dead and their immediate families were estranged from them, and have already profited from them with tell-all memoirs.
DCguy
Every 3 years or so we get ANOTHER round of Monical Lewinsky trying to give interviews to her friends in media.
The articles are usually the same, she’ll go on and on about how she doesn’t want to talk about the Clinton scandal and wants to move on with her life….then will spend the next 10 pages talking about the Clinton Scandal and how she is somehow the good guy, and the wife of the guy she slept with is the bad guy.
The latest is she always tries to become part of the current biggest story. A few years ago when she did this, she tried to say she was just like Tyler Clementi, the gay kid who committed suicide, this time she compared herself to the #MeToo movement.
She graduated from the London School of Economics, she lives in London, NYC, and LA, doesn’t seem to have a job and yet is at ALL the Hollywood parties where she befriends reporters and keeps getting new interviews every few years.
If she’s going to write a book or do a TV show, just do it for God’s Sake so we don’t have to keep reading the same articles about her every few years.
dunwoodyjoey
Prior to the White House internship, she ruined her high school teachers marriage “allegedly” performing fellacio on the teacher. The gal has ONE talent, or TWO is you count ruining marriages
jpcolter
No one is making you read articles about her, you know.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
“then will spend the next 10 pages talking about the Clinton Scandal and how she is somehow the good guy, and the wife of the guy she slept with is the bad guy”
And you disagree with that?
DCguy
mhoffman953 Stated…..
@DCguy
“then will spend the next 10 pages talking about the Clinton Scandal and how she is somehow the good guy, and the wife of the guy she slept with is the bad guy”
And you disagree with that?
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Please provide details on how the wife is the bad guy and the woman who slept with the married man or the man are the good guys.
We get it, Republicans hate women, but please detail out your logic.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
I never said Monica Lewinsky or Bill Clinton were the “good guys”. I’m saying they and Hillary Clinton are all the “bad guys”. Hillary Clinton has allegedly went on record to say that the women who accused her husband of rape were “bimbo eruptions”. Then she showed how hypocritical she can be when she writes on Twitter that all women of sexual assault should be believed. If that’s true, why didn’t she believe Paula Jones who successfully took Bill Clinton to court and forced him to settle out of court for sexually assaulting her. Another thing that makes Hillary Clinton a bad person is that she was a public defender for a child rapist and laughed about the fact that she got him off on a technicality even though he brutally raped a 12 year-old so hard that she went into a coma. Hillary claimed the 12 year-old was coming onto her client when she stood before the judge.
Also, your last comment here: “We get it, Republicans hate women” violated Queerty’s comment policy concerning blanket statements. You should review the comment policy before commenting
bushwickfreddy
I’m only here for Joan Collins returning to my television….though I find that AHS starts off with a bang, and then dissolves into the most boring hour of television one can sit through.
batesmotel
I didn’t realize the American Horror Story series was still on. Thought it was cancelled. Haven’t heard much about it since the Roanoake season a couple years ago.
Brian
There was another season after that. I can’t even remember what the subtitle was, so I must have been even more underwhelmed than I thought I was.
OzJosh
Murphy is every inch the great showman when announcing his star-studded projects – just less so in delivering them. A month or so back he announced that The Politician would star Barbra Streisand – which she denied a week later. In his latest media frenzy he also floated the idea of a “variety special” co-starring Streisand and Lady Gaga – something equally unlikely to happen. But he gets the attention.
nm4047
Like a few other commentaries on here, I thought the show had run its course and was cancelled, clearly this little ‘slip’ is to garner some media attention and see if there is any public interest.
Stephen
The truth about Monica is she has still been held as the most vilified woman in history. Almost impeaching a sitting president. She didn’t she was grossly manipulated. As such she has become popular as a joke, not a person of character with a mistake in her past. She has not been allowed to govforward with her life. The Clinton machine has held her down. She has been used, trashed, tossed and held to a higher moral standard than President C. She deserves to be producer, make a fortune and profit from being rejected from gainful employment, credibility as a person, and respected for something other than a sex scandal. Good old Bill! Nasty Woman in a bad way, Monica. Society has killed caked her to the curb. She deserves to be heard and allowed respect ? not vilification. No person has had it worse in the public and press. No one.