Drama FX/Ryan Murphy’s ‘American Sports Story’

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FX Orders ‘American Sports Story’ & ‘American Love Story’ Spinoffs From Ryan Murphy – Deadline

American Sports Story is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.

Written by Stu Zicherman (The Americans), the untitled first installment is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery. The limited series charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.

Stu Zicherman executive produces with Murphy, Jacobson, Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Falchuk. Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery (Dr. Death) executive produce alongside Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello of The Boston Globe.

 

[Sawyer]

Aaron Hernandez… considering how that all turns out, couldn’t it have just been a season of American Crime Story?

 

[squeekness]

I'll watch it no matter what they call it, lol.

 

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Lindsay Mendez Joins Josh Andrés Rivera & Patrick Schwarzenegger In ‘American Sports Story’ Season 1

All Rise alumna Lindsay Mendez is set as a series regular alongside Josh Andrés Rivera and Patrick Schwarzenegger in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology American Sports Story, Deadline has learned. Like wit…

deadline.com

 

[squeekness]

Works for me!

 

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[Drizzle]

*Sees Patrick Schwarzenegger is cast in this*

He must be playing Tom Brady. That's some spot-on casting because he looks just like him.

*Sees that he's playing Tim Tebow*

 

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[squeekness]

Cool. But what happened to season 1?

 

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Cool. But what happened to season 1?

I think this is season 1.

 

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EDIT: I got thrown off by the Old Man season 2 mention. I forgot about that show. It wasn't great.

 

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[Kaleb]

I was wondering how many seasons can they do of American Sports Story? Aaron Hernandez S1, I guess they could cover Mike Tyson? OJ Simpson was kind of already covered. I guess I am just wondering if they have enough sports scancal's (That will appeal to Ryan Murphy) to make this a long running series

 

[squeekness]

Looking forward to it.

 

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[OrbOfConfusion]

I know next to nothing about Hernandez, but after American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy fully has my attention with this and I'll be watching tonight.

Not looking forward to the two episode premiere not ending until close to 1 am and I wish that FX stopped doing that when their shows premiere at 10 pm, but it's a minor thing.

 

[squeekness]

Yeah, I'll probably watch the first episode tonight and the second one tomorrow.