It was recently reported that Evan Peters and Ryan Murphy are developing a new series together for FX titled The Beauty. Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, and Jeremy Pope are also set to star in the show,
The series is based on the Image Comics series of the same name created by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley.
The description of the story reads: “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.”
Murphy recently offered some more details on the series saying that it will be a Game of Thrones scale story that is inspired by Oxempic culture.
He told Variety: “It’s something I’ve never done before, which is a sci-fi medical show about a new virus that mutates and it’s sexually transmitted, that turns you into your absolute perfect self. And the question is, how far would you go to be beautiful? What would you sacrifice to that, and does that matter?
“That show was looking at, I call it the Ozempic culture. One little shot, and suddenly you’re going to look better and feel better, and all your problems are going to go away. But what are you really working on? What’s going on with you that you feel you need to do that? Sometimes it is health, sometimes it’s vanity.”
He went on to say: “It’s very different. It shoots in Europe — Venice, Rome and Paris. It’s a very big budget, kind of ‘Game of Thrones’ in its scale.”
This sounds like it’s going to be an intriguing series.
