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  • American Horror Story: New Season Details Revealed!

    While the “Murder House” from the first season of American Horror Story sits on the market in Los Angeles for $5 million, new details from the fourth season are slowly being leaked to the media to excite fans of the show about the premiere this fall.

    American Horror Story: Freak Show will take place in the 1950s and will feature many of the shows former cast: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare, and Angela Bassett. However, there will be newcomers as well, such as Michael Chiklis.

    But who will each of these actors be playing? A scary clown?

    “The most terrifying clown ever!” says director says co-creator Ryan Murphy.

    What about a bearded lady?

    “Yes,” Murphy says. “Our version of it.”

    We do know that Lange is slated to play a German ex-pat who “manages one of the last freak shows in the U.S.” Bates and Peters, as her son, will be performers in the show. Bassett admitted that she’s not sure who she is playing yet and Paulson revealed that she is working on a “very special skill” for this season. Chiklis will play Bates’ husband and Peters’ father.

    “It feels really right,” Murphy said of the new season. “I thought it was going to be light but it’s turning out to be quite terrifyingly dark.”

    Since this will be Lange’s last season on American Horror Story, it is only fitting that the season will be based on an idea that she and Murphy have talked about since the beginning.

    “It was always her favorite one, which I thought was funny,” Murphy said. “I’ve had many different versions that I’ve run by her. I just love it. It feels really right. I thought it was going to be light but it’s turning out to be quite terrifyingly dark, which it feels much more like the Asylum season. But look – if you have a character named the Clown Killer, it’s going to be dark.”

    Look for Lange, as well as the other fabulous cast members, in American Horror Story: Freak Show in the fall on FX.

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  • American Horror Story 4, “Carnival” Theme Announced

    American Horror Story, a horror television series broadcast on FX, has included many settings so far in its 3-year run: 2011 Los Angeles, 1964 Massachusetts, and 1800/2013 New Orleans.

    Recently AHS writer, Douglas Petrie, confirmed in the Nerdist News podcast that the new setting for the fourth segment of the series will be a carnival theme.

    When asked about the rumored theme, Petrie said, “We will find [our plan] and it’s gonna be awesome. We don’t know what we’re doing … It does not have a title, but [carnival], that’s the idea, very roughly that’s the idea.”

    Ryan Murphy, one of the creators of the show, had previously announced that the fourth season will take place in the 1950s. It will be the final run for actress Jessica Lange, who has starred in the previous three seasons. Currently Lange, age 64, is working on her German accent for the next season.

    No other casting decisions have been announced.

    Murphy previously said of the series, “We come up with story first and then we come up with the characters. It is a repertory company, so we’ll move people around and sometimes there won’t yet be a role for somebody. Like when we started [the second season], I really had no idea that Dylan [McDermott] would be the person to play Sarah’s son, but the deeper we got, I thought, that would work great.”

    Lange, who was discovered at a young age, appearing in the 1976 remake of King Kong, has received critical acclaim for her work on AHS, receiving the Emmy Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for her performance.

    In the past, Lange has admitted to suffering from bouts of depression, but says, “Though my dark side is dormant right now, it continues to play a big role in whatever capacity I have to be creative. That’s the well I’m able to tap into, where all the anguish, rage and sadness are stored.”

    That dark side is definitely revealed, and magnificently so, in her various roles on AHS.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, creators Murphy and Brad Falchuk and a handful of players from the repertory cast are set to appear on the AHSpanel at PaleyFest on March 28. Last year Murphy announced the third season concept and Coven from that stage.

    American Horror Story returns to FX in the fall of 2014.


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