The Shards, Ryan Murphy's series has a release date

The restless universe created by Bret Easton Ellis is set to conquer the small screen with The Shards. The adaptation of the eponymous novel published in 2023 will debut in Italy on August 6 on Disney+.

The project is led by Ryan Murphy, a producer who over the years has signed series like American Horror Story and Monsters, finding in The Shards perfect material for his dark atmospheres. The story follows Bret in the fall of 1981, a seventeen-year-old student at a prestigious private high school, whose routine is disrupted by the arrival of the mysterious Robert Mallory just as a serial killer known as The Trawler sows panic in the city.

Robert Mallory, the face that unsettles everyone

The production focuses more on ambiguity than on action, building a story where suspicions and obsessions end up contaminating every personal relationship. The cast includes Igby Rigney and Homer Gere, joined by Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, Wes Bentley, and Evan Rachel Wood.

Before coming under Murphy's aegis, the project had also been linked to Luca Guadagnino but without materializing. Now the adaptation finds a new identity, with the aim of transferring to the screen the same psychological tension that has made the novel one of Ellis's most appreciated works in recent years.