The second season of American Crime Story is set to be very very different to the first.
The first season of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Simpson show retold the story of the 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial, drawing both critical acclaim and big audience figures. While it covered some of the background to the case, it largely centred on the trial and was set in and around the courtroom.
For the second season, they're moving to New Orleans to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Louisiana city in 2005. Murphy has used this anthology model on his other show, American Horror Story, telling a different story every year, but using many of the same actors.
Yesterday, during a panel discussion on the show, Brad Simpson revealed some information on what viewers can expect from season 2 "It’s going to be about two things: one is the intensity of what it was like to be there on the ground, but also thematically the bigger crime which is that Katrina was something that was predictable that we weren’t prepared for even though we knew it was going to happen. Like O.J., I think it turns a lens back on America. It shows some uncomfortable truths about it. We’re just now about to get scripts in so we’ll know who the main characters are going to be."
While most of the characters in Season 1 were already familiar to audiences, but season 2 will feature a mix of known and unknown characters. It has not yet been confirmed which actors will return. Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer and Sarah Paulson were amongst those who appeared in The People vs OJ Simpson.
The show will be filmed between New Orleans and Los Angeles, and is set to air in 2017.
Via IGN
