American Crime Story's planned season on the Monica Lewinsky scandal is no more, as producers have had second thoughts about the whole thing.
The FX series announced last year that the infamous event – which saw then-US president Bill Clinton face impeachment over his testimony about an affair with a White House intern – would be the subject of the fourth season.
The 2000 book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President was optioned as source material, but it seems that creator Ryan Murphy has now decided against going ahead without the involvement of Lewinsky herself.
"I told her, 'Nobody should tell your story but you, and it's kind of gross if they do'," he recalled to The Hollywood Reporter after running into her at a Hollywood party.
"'If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer and you should make all the goddamn money'."
On top of that, it seems ACS's next planned season, based on Hurricane Katrina, is still up in the air at the moment, having previously been planned as the second instalment before being replaced by Versace.
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"We're never going to have a Crime Story unless we have the scripts down," he said. "I think the reason why Versace went next is because Tom Rob Smith had such a strong take on it. I am not in a rush to move forward with anything unless it's perfect."
To be fair, with Feud and American Horror Story too, we don't know how Murphy finds the time to fit it all in.
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