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Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino will be directing the HBO series adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards.
An El Independiente (via World of Reel) interview with Ellis revealed that Guadagnino will be directing the series and that there will be subplots not present in the original novel. World of Reel notes that The Shards is meant to have three seasons made up of 10 episodes each and that Ellis will apparently write every episode of the show.
Guadagnino has worked with HBO before on the 2020 miniseries We Are Who We Are, which starred Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Spence Moore II, Scott Mescudi, and more.
What else has Luca Guadagnino done?
Guadagnino has directed movies like 1999’s The Protagonists, 2005’s Melissa P., 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, and 2022’s Bones and All. His next film is Challengers, which stars actress Zendaya as a tennis coach.
Bret Easton Ellis is best known for writing major novels like The Rules of Attraction and American Psycho. He released The Shards this past January, which served as his first novel in 13 years.
“Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past.” reads the novel’s synopsis. “Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle.”