Feud, FX’s anthology drama series which last aired in 2017, is being revived by the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network is gathering a team of notable names for the series, with Naomi Watts (King Kong) starring, Ryan Murphy (Glee) producing, Gus Van Sant (Promised Land) directing, and Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers and Sisters) writing while also serving as showrunner.
This season of the show will be based on Laurence Leamer’s (The Kennedy Women) book, Capote’s Women: A True Story Of Love, Betrayal, And A Swan Song For An Era and will be titled Capote’s Women, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Season one of the series last aired in April 2017 and was based on the animosity between legendary actresses Bette Davis (All About Eve) and Joan Crawford (Torch Song) on the set of the 1962 film, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Back in 2017, the original plan for a second season was to have been based off the marriage between England’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana, but the idea was later scrapped, per The Hollywood Reporter. THR also reports that FX executives were open to making more of the series, but there was a prolonged search for the right material and Murphy ended up moving his overall deal from 20th TV to Netflix in 2018, which halted the show’s production.
Feud: Capote’s Women will be set in the 1970s and will tell the story of how Leamer had a bitter falling out with a number of New York society women, including Barbara “Babe” Paley, Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jackie Kennedy, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill and C.Z. Guest, whom he called his “swans,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Watts will play Paley, the wife of then-CBS chairman Bill Paley, in the series and will also serve as an executive producer, per THR. The rest of the cast is currently being searched for.
Feud is produced by Disney’s 20th TV and Plan B. Executive producers include Murphy, Baitz, Van Sant, Watts, Dede Gardner (Moonlight), Tim Minear (American Horror Story), Alexis Martin Woodall (The Prom), Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise), and Jessica Lange (Tootsie). Sarandon and Lange starred in the first season of the series.