A year after its announcement, and under the protection of its new sponsors, the Halston miniseries seems to have finally started. The next project of the prolific Ryan Murphy for Netflix will address the life and brilliant career of Roy Halston Frowick, better known as Halston, the first international fashion star.
Ewan McGregor will play the iconic designer , who managed to create a brand and a global empire synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, defining the time he lived in: the New York of the 70s and 80s. The actor of Star Wars , Moulin Rouge or Trainspotting returns to work on television after starring in the third season of Fargo . In addition, the miniseries will be executive producer.
Krysta Rodriguez will play the actress and singer Liza Minnelli , muse and friend of Halston who picked up her Oscar for Cabaret dressed as the designer. Rodriguez's curriculum includes series like Smash , where he coincided with Minnelli, and Daybreak ; or the Broadway musicals The Addams and Spring Awakening family .
According to Deadline , Halston's original project was written by Sharr White ( The Affair ) and had Dan Minahan as director , who has already worked with Murphy in another miniseries on a famous designer: the applauded The murder of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story . By the way, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz played Donatella Versace in this fiction.
Murphy took the reins of Halston after signing on Netflix in February 2018. The streaming platform disbursed $ 300 million to attract the creator of American Horror Story , Glee and the most recent Feud or Pose in a five-year deal.
In April 2019, Murphy announced that he was working on 10 projects for Netflix : among them, the already premiered series The Politician , the imminent Hollywood , which will debut on May 1, or Ratched , a prequel about Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest .
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