World Courant
FX’s upcoming anthology American Sports activities Story has discovered its Aaron Hernandez.
Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Jose Andrés Rivera has been tapped to painting the embattled former NFL star within the anthology sequence from govt producer Ryan Murphy.
The sequence, first introduced in August 2021, will increase Murphy’s American franchise to re-examine a distinguished occasion involving a sports activities determine by the prism of immediately’s world and can inform the story from a number of views. The primary season shall be based mostly on the Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Soccer Inc.
The season will chart the rise and fall of the previous New England Patriots tight finish who was convicted of homicide and in the end took his personal life. Thematically, it’s going to discover the disparate strands of his identification, his household, his profession, his suicide and their legacy in sports activities and American tradition.
Stu Zicherman (The People) will pen the script and exec produce the sequence alongside Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Wondery’s Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy and The Boston Globe’s Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello.
Rivera’s credit embrace a job as Chino in 2021’s West Aspect Story, the upcoming Starvation Video games function during which he performs Sejanus Plinth and the function Cat Particular person. He is rapped by Paradigm and Jackoway Austen.
“When Ryan Murphy got here to us with these two spinoffs and the tales for American Sports activities Story and American Love Story, we instantly jumped on the alternative,” FX CEO John Landgraf mentioned when he picked up each spinoffs of the franchise that began with American Horror Story. “What started with American Horror Story has spawned a number of the greatest and most indelible packages of our technology, most notably American Crime Story which created a good looking partnership between Ryan, Brad, Nina and Brad. Their alchemy and the best way during which they assemble these tales is completed with such care, such readability and such dimensionality that creates the magnificence that’s The Individuals v. OJ Simpson, The Assassination of Gianni Versace and Impeachment. We will not wait to see what comes subsequent.”
‘American Sports activities Story’ Casts Jose Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez – The Hollywood Reporter
World Information,Subsequent Large Factor in Public Knowledg
