Back in August 2021, we learned that FX Networks was looking to expand Ryan Murphy's 'American' franchise in a number of different ways. They included the limited series American Sports Story and American Love Story.
In addition, it was announced that Studio 54: American Crime Story would be the subject of the award-winning anthology series' fourth season . A little more than two years later, we have a major update to pass along – with Josh Andrés Rivera set to play Aaron Hernandez in American Sports Story.
from The Boston Globe and Wondery. Charting the rise and fall of NFL superstar Hernandez, the limited series explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture. A tight end for the New England Patriots, Hernandez would be convicted on April 15, 2015, of the 2013 killing of semipro football player Odin Lloyd – with Hernandez taking his own life in prison in 2017.
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American Sports Story: Gen V's Patrick Schwarzenegger Set as Tim TebowIt looks like the casting news for FX Networks and Ryan Murphy's 'American' franchise (with American Sports Story & American Love Story being the newest additions and Studio 54: American Crime Story serving as the subject of the award-winning anthology series' fourth season) is rolling on.
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