Ryan Murphy and FX are not moving forward with their planned Monica Lewinsky-centric season of American Crime Story, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The season was announced last year. It was going to be based on the book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin, who also wrote The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, which was the basis for the anthology series' acclaimed first season. But Murphy and his fellow producers reportedly changed their minds. And Murphy told Lewinsky, who as a 22-year-old White House intern had an affair with then-President Bill Clinton, before he told The Hollywood Reporter.
"I told her, 'Nobody should tell your story but you, and it's kind of gross if they do,'" Murphy says he said to her when he ran into her at a Hollywood party. " 'If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer and you should make all the goddamn money.'"
The next season of American Crime Story, which will be about Hurricane Katrina and star frequent Murphy collaborator Sarah Paulson, is in progress after being delayed for retooling.
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