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Ryan Murphy Announces 'Murder House'/'Coven' Crossover for American Horror Story Season 8

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In what will go down as one of the biggest "fan swerves" in the show's seven seasons, Ryan Murphy took to Twitter to cast a major spell on American Horror Story fans: not only is the rumored crossover between the show's first season, "Murder House," and the third season, "Coven," happening – it's happening as the theme for the eighth season of the FX series. 

Here's a look at Murphy's tweet:

https://twitter.com/MrRPMurphy/status/1007361446093586432

"The Coven/Murder House AHS crossover season won't be happening next year…because it's happening THIS YEAR. AHS #8 WITCHES RULE THIS SEPTEMBER"

American Horror Story: Murder House saw a family move into a haunted mansion in Los Angeles; while American Horror Story: Coven followed a girl sent to a special academy in New Orleans after discovering she's a witch. Murphy was originally on record as saying the crossover would happen, but no sooner than the ninth season. What impact this will have on previously announced cast members Sarah Paulson, Evan PetersKathy Bates, and Billie Lourd remains to be seen; with each (except for Lourd) having played a role in at least one of the two seasons.

Paulson's Billie Dean Howard appeared in "Murder House;" and her Cordelia Foxx appeared in "Coven." Peters played ghostly teen Tate Langdon in "Murder House" and fraternity president Kyle Spencer in "Coven." Bates joined American Horror Story during "Coven" as Madame Delphine LaLaurie.

Fans will have to wait to see how many of Murphy's previous teases turn out to be true and not cruel attempts at distraction. Until then, here's a rundown of what we've learned about American Horror Story's eighth season from his interview with Entertainment Weekly and FX's 'For Your Consideration' event for Emmy voters in April 2018 – proceed with "may-end-up-not-being-true" caution:

● Describing the storyline behind the upcoming season as "very high concept," Murphy promises viewers a line-up of guest stars unlike any other since the glory days of 1970s ABC hour-long "dramedies": "You will see so many fan favorites return that you'll feel like it's The Love Boat."

● Murphy has yet to comment on the rumored "Radioactive" title; and with the crossover now happening, it's validity is called further into question. He did warn fans that the season would have a huge twist to it: "It's a season unlike anything we've done because there's a big hook to it. There's a huge thing that happens in episode five."

●  With filming expected to begin any time now ("We start shooting season 8 around June 16th."), American Horror Story's season 8 (Murphy did not address the Radioactive title rumor) will be set "18 months from today."

●  Murphy is looking to take the upcoming season back to the more fantasy-horror elements of previous seasons – and in the process, pretty much gave away the secret and we missed it!

"It's heightened. It's not necessarily as real and grounded as the past season. We're sort of getting back to Asylum, and Coven. That's the tone of it."

●  Peters's announced hairstylist role could also be in question, which was revealed during a portion of the FYC presentation when cast members from Cult were allowed to ask Murphy any question they had about the upcoming season (except if they were going to be in it). Peters asked if there would be wigs worn during season 8, which led to this response from Murphy:

"I'll tell you something about you, because I see how this is going. The funny thing is, we shot Cult and it was very taxing on Evan, and around Thanksgiving, I was talking to Evan and he said, 'You know this show is so hard, it's so difficult to do'. So your part this year is a comedic part, you are comedic and you play a hairstylist."

●  Joan Collins is expected to play Peters's grandmother, another revelation from Murphy's onstage Q&A.  Cult's Leslie Grossman wondered if Peters would get to work his on-screen styling skills on Collins' hair: "Joan Collins? Yes. She plays Evan's grandmother."

●  Adina Porter asked about minority casting for the upcoming season, which Murphy confirmed: "I will tell you that three of our leads are indeed minorities."

●  As for any updates on the rumor of Anjelica Huston joining the cast, Murphy said, "(We're) talking. I love her."

Variety


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Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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