There’s blood and violence in Fox’s Scream Queens, but co-creator Ryan Murphy sees it as being much different from his FX series, American Horror Story. The series boasts an entire pledge class-worth of young starlets including Ryan Murphy muses Emma Roberts (American Horror Story: Coven, Freak Show and the upcoming Hotel) and Lea Michele (Glee) and Skyler Samuels (who appeared in four episodes of AHS: Freak Show) as well as Billie Lourd, Keke Palmer and Abigail Breslin.
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Murphy says that he doesn’t get a lot of pushback from the Fox standards and practices department in regards to Scream Queens’ violent content. “It’s the language of these girls and their empowering sense of sexuality” where Murphy faces the most hurdles during production. That’s very easy to get through in my job. It’s language, it’s slang, it’s trying to reflect how people really talk.
In “Scream Queens“, Curtis plays a college dean in Anywhere United States of America, where a murderer is on the loose.
The 13-episode first season, whose forged consists of horror maven Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele and Emma Roberts, explores a thriller that stretches again 20 years and is about contained in the world of the school Greek system.
Whilst we’re a little disappointed to know that the star’s time on the show will be pretty short lived, as we previously reported, the odds of survival were most definitely stacked against her.
Adding: ‘I’m not the only person who’s been given that direction – every actor on the show. She notes that underneath it all, we’re “inherently dark, inherently frustrated human beings who are trying so desperately to keep it together”. And what’s so fun about this show is that everything you think about every single one of these characters, you don’t know s*** about anything. “Everybody right here is sporting a masks, and this present peels off these masks every week and it is sensible”.
Global Business Times has written a synopsis of the series intended for those unfamiliar with the show. “I don’t care what’s happening, whatever Niecy Nash is throwing at me, I am squeezing a pushpin between my fingers to make it hurt really bad so that I will not laugh and that is a testament to the writing”.
Murphy is no stranger to the horror genre (and credits The Walking Dead with bringing horror back to the small screen), but at a 2015 TCA Summer Press Tour event today, the prolific showrunner said that Scream Queens will feature more over-the-top satire than American Horror Story.
‘Unlike that girl, who apologized and resigned, we wanted to bring our queen-bee character to some sort of awareness about her behavior.’.
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN.
