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Hayes Warner Joins Ryan Murphy’s FX Thriller ‘The Shards’ as Series Regular

The FX adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1981-set novel moves forward under director Max Winkler, with a writer yet to be named.

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Overview

  • Singer and actress Hayes Warner has been cast as a series regular, playing Debbie Shaffer.
  • She joins the previously announced ensemble of Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere and Graham Campbell.
  • The series comes from 20th Television and Ryan Murphy Productions, with Murphy, Bret Easton Ellis and Max Winkler among the executive producers.
  • Winkler is attached to direct the TV take on Ellis’s prep school thriller first released as a serialized audiobook and published in 2023.
  • FX and 20th Television declined to comment to outlets, and a credited writer for the series has not been announced.