American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy almost made an Audrey Hepburn rom com... with Steven Spielberg
American Horror Story season 12 is back on the air, catapulting series creator Ryan Murphy back VIP status to among horror fans. But blood and guts wasn't always Murphy's bread and butter - the industry veteran is also responsible for medical drama Nip/Tuck, musical comedy Glee, and for a brief, shining moment, nearly made an Audrey Hepburn-centric rom com... with none other than Steven Spielberg producing.Some context: The script followed a Hepburn-obsessed news anchor, who begins the flick by being left at the altar, looking for love in the best friend of her ex-fiance. Spielberg first noticed it in the 90s, during which time Murphy was still primarily a writer. Murphy had also just recently gone through a pretty tough breakup, which inspired the plot. Here's the story in Murphy's own words, thanks to the ScriptShadow blog:"[...] I wrote the script based on a breakup I was going through at the time called Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn? It’s this great soufflé of romantic comedy and it was close to her death, and [Spielberg] bought the script and we worked on it [...]" Read more
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