The Beauty is on pause at FX. The options on the cast of Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson’s series, based on a comic book series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, have lapsed, and the actors are moving onto other projects. That includes leads Evan Peters, who is filming Season 13 of American Horror Story for FX and Murphy, and Rebecca Hall, who is in talks for the female lead opposite Morgan Spector in Netflix’s Dan Brown series adaptation The Secret Of Secrets.
While Ryan Murphy series can go dormant for awhile before being revisited, there are no current plans for Season 2 of The Beauty. A big-budget extravaganza with top talent, extensive visual effects and pricey shoots in iconic locations across Europe, the sci-fi/body horror series got off to a solid launch in January, especially overseas, but it did not sustain the momentum and was soon overshadowed by the launch of another Ryan Murphy FX series, Love Story, which captured the cultural zeitgeist.