Darren Criss Says Original ‘Hollywood’ Script Was ‘Super-Charged Sexually’

By Dino-Ray Ramos

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka

The original script for Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” was way too hot to handle.

Working on the Netflix show “Hollywood” was a tearjerking experience for actress Michelle Krusiec.

Ryan Murphy is opening up about how the theme of the new season of American Horror Story could change because of the pandemic.

Forget everything you thought you knew about American Horror Story Season 10 because Ryan Murphy revealed that the milestone season's theme may need to change. The FX anthology was originally slated to begin filming this spring, but production was suspended indefinitely amid the coronavirus pandemic. When speaking with The Wrap, Murphy shared that this delay could mean that the series will no longer be able to do the "weather-dependent" theme he had originally envisioned.

[This story contains spoilers from Hollywood.] Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's new Netflix limited series Hollywood reimagines how the entertainment industry may have evolved differently if a woman were in charge and people took bold steps to dismantle the biases against race, gender and sexuality back in the 1940s.

Ryan Murphy’s new series “Hollywood” is coming at the perfect time, with most of the world under lockdown with the coronavirus pandemic. For producer and star Darren Criss, there’s a connection to be made between what we’re all experiencing now and the show’s post-WWII setting.

There's an interesting idea at the heart of Hollywood, the new Netflix series from Ryan Murphy and Glee co-creator Ian Brennan: What if it had gone down differently?

Ryan Murphy is rewriting history with a little help from his friends. Netflix’s Hollywood imagines a post–World War II Tinseltown in which systemic racism, gender bias and homophobia don’t exist — and puts on a flashy show at the same time! “The 1940s are just so ripe with their own mythology,” star Darren Criss, who also executive produces, exclusively says in the latest issue of Us Weekly.

Patti LuPone has been entertaining audiences for nearly five decades, so why would she stop during a global pandemic? Prior to Broadway's shutdown in response to the coronavirus, LuPone was poised to have quite a spring, both on stage and off.

By Marc Malkin

Netflix and prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy are each making a $100,000 donation to an entertainment industry charity ahead of the release of the Hollywood TV series.