Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards’ Series Casts Igby Rigney, Homer James Jigme Gere, Graham Campbell
UPDATED: Ryan Murphy‘s FX series adaptation of “The Shards” has added a trio of actors to its cast and has been officially greenlit.
Variety has learned from sources that Igby Rigney will play a young Bret Easton Ellis in the series, with “The Shards” based on Ellis’ book of the same name. In addition, Homer James Jigme Gere will play Robert and Graham Campbell will play Thom.
The trio would star in the series alongside previously announced cast member Kaia Gerber.
Reps for FX and 20th Television declined to comment.
“The Shards” was first reported to be in the works at FX back in May. As reported at the time, Murphy is executive producing via Ryan Murphy Productions, while Max Winkler is attached to direct and executive produce. Ellis is also an executive producer, as are Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey, and Brian Young. 20th TV will produce, with Murphy under an overall deal at the studio.
“The Shards,” a horror novel, centers a fictional serial killer in 1980s Los Angeles while incorporating semi-autobiographical details from Ellis’ upbringing. The novel’s official description via Penguin Random House imprint Knopf reads:
“17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them — and Bret in particular — with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation.”
“The Shards” will mark the television debuts of both Gere and Campbell. Rigney is best known for his collaborations with Mike Flanagan, having starred in Flangan’s shows “The Midnight Club,” “Midnight Mass,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” His other credits include “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” as well as the film “Fast & Furious 9.”
Rigney is repped by Buchwald, Canopy Media Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Gere is repped by WME, manager Emily Gerson Saines, and attorney Ryan LeVine. Campbell is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Variety has learned from sources that Igby Rigney will play a young Bret Easton Ellis in the series, with “The Shards” based on Ellis’ book of the same name. In addition, Homer James Jigme Gere will play Robert and Graham Campbell will play Thom.
The trio would star in the series alongside previously announced cast member Kaia Gerber.
Reps for FX and 20th Television declined to comment.
“The Shards” was first reported to be in the works at FX back in May. As reported at the time, Murphy is executive producing via Ryan Murphy Productions, while Max Winkler is attached to direct and executive produce. Ellis is also an executive producer, as are Nick Hall, Kathleen McCaffrey, and Brian Young. 20th TV will produce, with Murphy under an overall deal at the studio.
“The Shards,” a horror novel, centers a fictional serial killer in 1980s Los Angeles while incorporating semi-autobiographical details from Ellis’ upbringing. The novel’s official description via Penguin Random House imprint Knopf reads:
“17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them — and Bret in particular — with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation.”
“The Shards” will mark the television debuts of both Gere and Campbell. Rigney is best known for his collaborations with Mike Flanagan, having starred in Flangan’s shows “The Midnight Club,” “Midnight Mass,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” His other credits include “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” as well as the film “Fast & Furious 9.”
Rigney is repped by Buchwald, Canopy Media Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Gere is repped by WME, manager Emily Gerson Saines, and attorney Ryan LeVine. Campbell is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.