The Beauty, a graphic novel by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, is getting a series adaptation helmed by the American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy and Glee writer Matt Hodgson.
According to Deadline, FX has picked up an eleven-episode series order based on the comic, where people become increasingly beautiful via the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease. Unsurprisingly, the good looks come with a deadly cost, which two detectives, Drew Foster and Kara Vaughn, work to uncover.
We don’t have details yet on the specific plotline of the television series adaptation, though odds are good at least some elements of the graphic novel will make their way to the small screen. We do know several members of the cast, including Evan Peters (American Horror Story, Quicksilver in the last tranche of X-Men films), Anthony Ramos (Twisters, Ironheart), Jeremy Pope (The Inspection), and Ashton Kutcher (That ‘70s Show).
Deadline reports that the show will center on a male and female lead—probably the detectives—and that casting is underway for the female lead. While not confirmed, it’s likely Peters (pictured above) will play the male lead given his history working with Murphy on nine seasons of American Horror Story, as well as starring as the titular serial killer in Murphy’s limited series Dahmer: Monster—The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Kutcher is reportedly playing a tech billionaire.
No news on when the first season of the series will make its way to FX. Production, however, is likely set to start this November.