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Evan Peters, Ashton Kutcher Among the Cast for Ryan Murphy's Series about a Killer STD
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
"American Horror Story" and "Monster" star Even Peters is set to join prolific producer Ryan Murphy on "The Beauty," an 11-part series about an STD that makes its victims beautiful before it kills them, Variety reported.
The series "is based on the Image Comics series of the same name by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley," Variety noted.
Aptly for the show's title, an array of gorgeous talent have signed on to star alongside Peters, including out actor Jeremy Pope (who was part of the cast in Murphy's series "Hollywood"), Anthony Ramos (who starred in the film version of "In the Heights"), and "That '70s Show" alum Ashton Kutcher.
"The Beauty" is scripted by Murphy – "with Matthew Hodgson, who worked on 'Glee,' '9-1-1,' and 'American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez,'" Entertainment Weekly said – but no details about it have emerged. However, EW summarized the story of the comic, "a sci-fi procedural focused on two cops, detectives Foster and Vaughn, who are investigating a strange but poignant phenomenon that swept the nation: An STD that burns fat, chisels jaws, sculpts muscles, and makes the infected beautiful."
In the comic book version of the story, the disease is widespread, in part because people deliberately seek it out.
"The problem is that Foster and Vaughn quickly learn that the STD is fatal," EW said, "and it might have been introduced to the populace as part of a secret government plot."
The series begins filming this fall, and will air on FX.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
