Ryan Murphy has heard the questions concerning the naming conventions of his numerous FX collection, however he doesn’t see the validity in them.
The TV mogul tells Deadline that he would “strongly disagree” with strategies that Grotesquerie ought to have been beneath the American Horror Story banner, or that Aaron Hernandez’s story would’ve been higher suited as a brand new installment of American Crime Story relatively than the primary in a brand new anthology collection, American Sports activities Story.
“Grotesquerie has nothing in widespread with American Horror Story. It simply doesn’t. I feel it’s the distinction between doing Don’t Look Now and Halloween would might by no means have match into that present. It was by no means thought of for that. It’s a a lot completely different animal,” he mentioned of the brand new horror collection starring Niecy Nash, which revealed an enormous flip within the story that Murphy and FX Chief John Landgraf additionally mentioned with Deadline.
Of American Sports activities Story, Murphy added that collection is “much less concerning the crime, however about poisonous masculinity [and] concussion accidents…”
“I feel the factor that does overlap is my curiosity in my tone and my casting and the world constructing and all that stuff,” he mentioned. “When it got here out, and I began to listen to about that, as a result of I don’t learn something, I used to be like, ‘What are you speaking about? No, it’s nothing like that.’
These are simply 4 of the a number of collection Murphy has ongoing at FX at present, which additionally embrace American Horror Tales and Feud, in addition to these nonetheless within the works like American Love Story — the primary season of which is ready to depict the connection between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy — and The Magnificence, which in some methods Murphy says is a extra trendy tackle the identical themes he beforehand explored in Nip/Tuck.
However, whereas all of those collection might need some overlapping themes, they every have “a special set of influences” that set them aside in his thoughts.
For the report, Landgraf agrees. He defined that, to him, American Horror Story is “a simple horror construction with very creative tone and setting and visible language and characters.”
“[Grotesquerie] just isn’t that. You already can see that it’s completely not. It’s completely an existential factor. It’s extra like Get Out or one thing that’s crammed with misdirection and social commentary, and it’s not an And Then There Had been None-type horror,” he continued. “So I can perceive, actually, you sympathize with individuals who bought confused by it, as a result of it’s nominally horror, but it surely’s actually its personal, completely completely different factor. I feel it might have executed a disservice each American Horror Story and Grotesquerie to place it in there, as a result of it’s not only a subset of American Horror Story. It’s its personal, wholly completely different factor.”
