Ryan Murphy to Produce 'American Love Story,' 'American Sports Story' Spinoffs for FX

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Ryan Murphy is set to produce two more "American Story" spinoffs for FX (despite his mega Netflix deal): "American Love Story" and "American Sports Story," Deadline reports.

"American Love Story" will be anthology series based on true love stories that captivated people across the globe. The first season will be about John F. Kennedy Jr.'s relationship with Carolyn Bassette.

"What started out as a beautiful union for the young couple, widely regarded as American royalty, began to fray under the stress of the relentless microscope and navel gaze of tabloid media," Deadline writes. "The pressures of their careers and rumored family discord ended with their tragic deaths when his private plane crashed into the ocean on a hazy summer night off the coast of Massachusetts."

Similarly, "American Sports Story" is an anthology series but will focus on headline-grabbing events involving sports figures and "re-examines it through the prism of today's world, telling that story from multiple perspectives." The first season will be written by Stu Zicherman ("The Americans") and is based on "Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc." Deadline reports it will follow 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."

"When Ryan Murphy came to us with these two spinoffs and the stories for 'American Sports Story' and 'American Love Story,' we immediately jumped at the opportunity," John Landgraf, Chairman of FX, said. "What began with 'American Horror Story' has spawned some of the best and most indelible programs of our generation, most notably 'American Crime Story' which created a beautiful partnership between Ryan, Brad, Nina and Brad. Their alchemy and the way in which they construct these stories is done with such care, such clarity and such dimensionality that creates the magnificence that is 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace and Impeachment.' We can't wait to see what comes next."

Murphy will produce the two shows alongside Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.


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