Ryan Murphy’s New Netflix Miniseries ‘Hollywood’ Sets May Premiere Date

Netflix is coming for Hollywood. The streamer has set a May 1 premiere date for Ryan Murphy’s new limited series about post-war Tinseltown titled Hollywood. And it has also released the first key art for the series.

The seven-episode series is Ryan Murphy’s first exclusive Netflix project under the massive overall deal he signed in 2018. But, it is his third show with the streamer. Netflix picked up Murphy’s 20th Century Fox produced series The Politician which premiered in September 2019. It also picked up Murphy’s Sarah Paulson led series Ratched.

Co-created by Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan (Glee and Scream Queens), Hollywood follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers who are trying to make it at any cost in post World War II Tinseltown. As the official logline goes, “Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender, and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, Hollywood exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.”

When Murphy announced the news of this project in 2019, he called it “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.”

The series is set to star David Corenswet as Jack, Darren Criss as Raymond, Jeremy Pope as Archie, Laura Harrier as Camille, Samara Weaving as Claire, Jim Parsons as Henry Willson, and Dylan McDermott as Ernie. Other cast members include Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid, Patti LuPone as Avis, Jake Picking as Rock Hudson, Joe Mantello as Dick, and Maude Apatow as Henrietta.

Hollywood is executive produced by Murphy, Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, and Janet Mock. Mock will also be co-writing alongside Murphy and Brennan as well as directing.

In addition to Hollywood, Murphy already has several projects in development at Netflix. On the TV side, production has just begun on his limited series Halston starring Ewan McGregor. It is an adaptation of the musical A Chorus Line which follows the story of a designer who rose to fame int he 1970s. Murphy is also working on Ratched, a prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest which revolved around the story of Andy Warhol.

On the film side, Ryan Murphy is set to direct an adaptation of the play The Boys In The Band. He will be working with the star-studded 2018 Broadway revival cast. He is also producing another adaptation from the Broadway musical The Prom. It’s set to star Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells.

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