
Nineteen years after working on Running with Scissors, Ryan Murphy and Evan Rachel Wood are teaming up for a brand-new show. Murphy directed and wrote the screenplay for Running with Scissors, which was released in 2006. The former Westworld cast member starred alongside an all-star cast that included Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union and Kristin Chenoweth.
Now Murphy and Wood are back together on a new project, this time on a TV show called The Shards that will air on FX, according to Deadline. Rounding out the cast are Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Graham Campbell and Hayes Warner.
Wood’s role hasn’t been revealed yet, but she will star in a recurring capacity. The show is adapting Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel The Shards, which is set at a high school in the 1980s and centers on a tragedy that occurs after a new student arrives on the scene.
Ellis is best known for writing American Psycho, which was turned into a film starring Christian Bale.
Running with Scissors, which was critically panned despite winning multiple awards, was released while Murphy’s medical drama Nip/Tuck was on the air and three years before his hit musical comedy series Glee catapulted his career into the stratosphere.
Since then, Murphy has created, produced and written numerous shows like American Horror Story, Scream Queens, American Crime Story, Feud, 9-1-1 and Pose.
The multi-hyphenate creator has multiple shows currently on the air, including 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville. The Ed Gein Story, the third season of his Monster anthology series, was released on Netflix on October 3 but only has a 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest score to date for the true-crime series.
Murphy is about to launch a star-studded legal drama on Hulu called All’s Fair with Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Close. Aside from The Shards, he’s got other shows in the works, including The Beauty and Love Story.
Wood, meanwhile, followed up her role in Running with Scissors by starring in such films as The Ides of March, Across the Universe, Frozen 2 and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, as well as the TV shows True Blood and Westworld, the latter of which earned her a Critics’ Choice Award, a Golden Globe nomination and two Emmy nominations.
Including Running with Scissors, Murphy’s track record has certainly been mixed when it comes to the critical reception of his projects, so it’s way too early to tell how The Shards will be received by the public. However, the novel it’s being adapted from received mixed reviews but was a bestseller nonetheless.
- Release Date
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October 27, 2006
- Runtime
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116 minutes






