Ryan Murphy isn’t ready for his swan song just yet, or is he?
The second season of the producer’s critically acclaimed historical series “Feud” finally has a release date.
The drama’s first two eps will drop on FX alongside a director’s cut edition of the first episode on sibling network FXX on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at 10 p.m. EST.
Season 1 — titled “Bette and Joan” — premiered in 2017 and the show’s second season from Murphy, 58, will come seven years after the initial broadcast.
The sophomore series is called “Capote vs. the Swans,” chronicling “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author Truman Capote as he creates an inner circle of rich women in the 1970s.
The stacked, all-star cast consists of Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald and Joe Mantello.
The eight-episode miniseries will be airing once a week and is based on the pages of Laurence Leamer’s book “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era.”
“Acclaimed writer Truman Capote (Hollander) surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women — rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York — whom he nicknamed ‘the swans,’” the official synopsis reads.
“Beautiful and distinguished, the group included grande dame Barbara ‘Babe’ Paley (Watts), Slim Keith (Lane), C.Z. Guest (Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Flockhart),” the show’s description continues.
But Capote’s fascination with the women soon turns sinister.
“Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets,” it reads.
“When an excerpt from the book, ‘Answered Prayers,’ Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans,” the synopsis concludes.
Capote was consequently “banished from the high society he so loved,” which “sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.”
The first season of “Feud” detailed the conflict between Hollywood icons Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) as they filmed their infamous 1962 drama “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”
This project isn’t Murphy’s only feature in the works at the moment.
Kim Kardashian — who recently starred in the producer’s other FX series “American Horror Story: Delicate” — will be taking on a new lead in his upcoming scripted legal series.
The show is “a high-end, glossy and sexy adult procedural” that will be released on Hulu, Deadline reported Monday.
The series is set to start production late next year and will air in 2025.
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