Two shows in the works covering the 2016 Presidential Election in narrative format, including 'American Horror Story' Season 7

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By Darian Scalamoni

            After the insanity that was the 2016 United States Presidential Election, it seems that there are already two shows in the works that will cover the race between Hillary Clinton and the eventual winner, President Donald Trump. Variety reports that Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story anthology series that Season 7’s theme “…is going to be about the election that we just went through” which he revealed on the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen show. When asked if the show will have a “Trump” character, Murphy responded with “Maybe.”

            Collider reports that also an 8-10 episode miniseries written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) will team up with the head of Annapurna Pictures, Megan Ellison to craft a political drama that will tell the compelling events that was the election cycle. Boal is expected to make his directorial debut with this series and I personally believe it has potential to be the better of the two as he’s working with investigative journalists in New York and Washington D.C. to serve as contributors for his ideas before writing the screenplays. Boal has the resume to be excited about this project whether you want to re-live the circus-like election the citizens of the United States just went through.

            Murphy’s newest series on FX titled Feud: Bette and Joan will make its series premiere on March 5^th. While his next season of American Crime Story, subtitled Katrina, debuts next year. The next season of American Horror Story that will focus on the election subject matter begins shooting in June. Boal wrote the screenplay for Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming untitled Detroit riots project that will be released on August 4^th.