American Crime Story...

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http://www.avclub.com/article/americ...mpanion-210191

Realizing that there are at least two types of American stories, American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy is launching American Crime Story, an FX anthology series that tackles true crime with the same sober, reserved touch he’s brought to fictional scenes of people impaling each other. Fittingly, the show—which already has a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes—will begin with a case that has plenty of psychosexual drama, knife-wielding psychos, and uncomfortable racial undertones built right in. American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson will be based on Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run Of His Life, with The People Vs. Larry Flynt screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski drafting a script that will revisit the Simpson case from the perspective of the lawyers, whose bumbling antics and spoiled children have kept us entertained for decades now.

Like American Horror Story, each succeeding season of American Crime Story will take on a different true crime story, which should turn the annual ritual of Murphy dropping hints into an even more morbid guessing game. Unlike American Horror Story, it’s believed Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson will remain dead for the entire season (though maybe don’t rule out a musical fantasy sequence).

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True Detective for cable television?

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American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson

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Banking on past onscreen gridiron experience, his lack of a murder conviction, and the fact that Jessica Lange would’ve just looked silly playing a former Heisman Trophy winner, Cuba Gooding Jr. has been cast as American Crime Story’s O.J. Simpson. As previously reported, the first season of American Horror Story’s true-crime companion show will focus on the 1994-95 trial that found Simpson charged with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a dramatization based on the 2013 book The Run Of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin. But in spite of all the other names already associated with the show, Entertainment Weekly reports that American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson will prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is a Ryan Murphy television project by placing actress Sarah Paulson in the shoes of prosecutor Marcia Clark.

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http://www.avclub.com/article/david-...crime-s-213269

Now David Schwimmer is reportedly circling the role of Simpson’s lead defense attorney, the late Robert Kardashian, whose fame has since been eclipsed by that of his reality-star offspring.

Tim Roth has reportedly also asked to play Kardashian, giving Murphy another option if Schwimmer changes his mind. Murphy apparently also wants Samuel L. Jackson to join the project as Johnnie Cochran, probably because he can’t cast Jessica Lange in the part.

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http://www.avclub.com/article/john-t...e-story-213548

Ever eager to relive the mid-1990s, John Travolta has signed on to star in American Crime Story, the upcoming FX series where Ryan Murphy’s usual cavalcade of unbelievable shit meets its real-life analogue in the trial of O.J. Simpson. According to a network press release, Travolta has signed on for his first regular series role since Welcome Back Kotter to play Robert Shapiro, the initial leader of Simpson’s defense team (affectionately known as The Sweathogs). Shapiro became part of the Simpson circus from the moment Simpson ran from police, for reasons that were certainly not damning enough to convict. As such, Travolta—who’s also credited as a producer on the project—will likely be seen in most of the 10-episode series.

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