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Real Story Behind TV Show

FX’s newest installment in Ryan Murphy‘s American Story franchise, American Sports activities Story: Aaron Hernandez, is able to hit TV screens. The ten-episode restricted collection follows the true life rise and fall of disgraced former New England Patriots participant Aaron Hernandez.

The present, which stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Hernandez, is predicated on The Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Soccer Inc. The podcast dug into Hernandez’s life and profession, alongside together with his arrest, eventual conviction for homicide and his loss of life by suicide inside a Massachusetts most safety jail.

In June 2013, authorities found the physique of semi skilled soccer participant Odin Lloyd, who was courting the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, a couple of mile away from the then-football participant’s residence. Simply 9 days later, Hernandez was arrested on a homicide cost in reference to Lloyd’s loss of life at his North Attleborough, Mass., mansion and brought out of the house in handcuffs.

Hernandez was launched by the Patriots inside hours. He pleaded not responsible to the costs, however was ultimately convicted of first-degree homicide in 2015.

In Could 2014, almost a yr after Hernandez was arrested on expenses associated to Lloyd’s homicide, he was indicted on two counts of first-degree homicide, together with different associated expenses, in reference to the 2012 deadly shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.

In accordance with Related Press, the pair had been shot to loss of life of their automobile at a pink gentle in Boston’s South Finish neighborhood. The AP reported that prosecutors stated Hernandez, who went on trial in February 2017, was offended as a result of de Abreu by accident ran into him at a nightclub whereas dancing, spilling his drink. Nonetheless, Hernandez’s legal professionals stated he was harmless. Hernandez was acquitted of homicide within the killings of de Abreu and Furtado on April 14, 2017.

Simply days after being acquitted in that case, on April 19, 2017, Hernandez was discovered hanging by a mattress sheet in his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Middle, a most safety jail in Leominster, Mass. He was later pronounced useless at a close-by hospital. The Boston Globe reported that Hernandez and one other inmate had been smoking K2 within the former soccer participant’s cell. The newspaper described the drug as wanting “like marijuana nevertheless it’s extra poisonous: vegetation sprayed with chemical substances that may trigger hallucinations and are laborious to detect in drug exams.”

Hernandez, a former College of Florida soccer participant, was drafted to the New England Patriots in 2010. The previous tight finish was reportedly somebody to be warned about within the locker room. In accordance with reporting from The Boston Globe, former NFL participant Wes Welker warned former Patriots receiver Brandon Lloyd of Hernandez’s habits.

“He’s taking a look at me wide-eyed,’’ Lloyd recalled to the Gladiator podcast. “And he says, ‘I simply need to warn you that [Hernandez] goes to speak about being bathed by his mom. He’s going to have his genitalia out in entrance of you when you’re sitting in your stool. He’s going to speak about homosexual intercourse. Simply do your finest to disregard it. Even stroll away.’”

The podcast of which American Sports activities Story: Aaron Hernandez is predicated upon, touches on a number of features of Hernandez’s life, together with his childhood, and the reported abuse he and his brother suffered throughout stated childhood, together with Hernandez’s reported wrestle together with his sexuality and the way he exhibited signs of CTE.

The collection will chart the rise and fall of the previous New England Patriots tight finish. Thematically, it’s going to discover the disparate strands of his id, his household, his profession, his suicide and their legacy in sports activities and American tradition.

American Sports activities Story expands Murphy’s five-series American Story anthology franchise, which additionally consists of 12 seasons of flagship season American Horror Story, three seasons of American Crime Story, three seasons of American Horror Tales and the forthcoming spinoff American Love Story, which can chart the whirlwind courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. A possible fourth season of American Crime Story, titled Studio 54, is in improvement.

American Sports activities Story will re-examine a outstanding occasion involving a sports activities determine by the prism of at present’s world and can inform the story from a number of views. This season’s script is from Stu Zicherman (The People), who exec produce alongside Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Wondery’s Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy, and The Boston Globe’s Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello.

American Sports activities Story: Aaron Hernandez premieres with two episodes on FX at 10 p.m. on Sept. 17. The present may even be streaming on Hulu.

Watch ‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Trailer

Aaron Hernandez’s journey from NFL professional to convicted assassin will get the scripted TV therapy within the newest installment of Ryan Murphy‘s American Story franchise, American Sports activities Story, the trailer for which debuted Wednesday.

Within the collection, which premieres on FX on Sept. 17, Josh Andrés Rivera stars as Hernandez, who’s affected by his violent urges. “You don’t know what sort of ideas I’ve. It’s like a demon,” he says. “What if God made me this manner?”

Varied folks across the athlete warn him about his uncontrollable urges as somebody who’s now within the public eye. “You possibly can’t make errors, Aaron,” he’s advised by a member of the family. He’s additionally warned, “The medicine, the intercourse, the anger — no one’s questioning your athletic means, Aaron. They’re questioning your character.”

American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez | Official Trailer | Josh Rivera, Ryan Murphy | FX

Apart from Rivera, the collection stars Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow and Norbert Leo Butz as New England Patriots coach Invoice Belichick. It’s government produced by Ryan Murphy, Stuart Zicherman, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson and Carl Franklin. Based mostly on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Soccer Inc., from The Boston Globe and Wondery, the inaugural installment of the brand new anthology collection can also be government produced by Wondery’s Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy and The Boston Globe‘s Linda Pizzuti Henry and Ira Napoliello.

American Sports activities Story, introduced in 2021, goals to reexamine a outstanding occasion involving a sports activities determine by the prism of at present’s world and can inform the story from a number of views.

Hernandez was convicted of homicide, and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole, within the 2023 taking pictures of fellow soccer participant Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of Hernandez’s fiancée’s sister. He was additionally tried however acquitted of the 2012 deadly shootings of Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu.

Hernandez was finally acquitted from the murders of Furtado and de Abreu following a 2017 trial. However simply days after the acquittal, Hernandez dedicated suicide when he was discovered to have hanged himself in his jail cell. It turned one of the crucial infamous moments in NFL historical past.

Travis Kelce to Star in FX Series Grotesquerie

Travis Kelce continues his push into Hollywood, scoring a task in Ryan Murphy‘s FX horror collection Grotesquerie.

Grotesquerie star Niecy Nash-Betts confirmed Kelce’s involvement within the present in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday. Though particulars on the present are scant, Nash-Betts together with Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville are among the many introduced castmembers.

No particulars have been revealed on what function Kelce shall be enjoying. In February, Murphy dropped a teaser for a brand new collection titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram put up. The cryptic teaser options Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed a couple of crime scene.

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Kelce, who’s having one thing of a popular culture second attributable to his relationship with Taylor Swift and his staff profitable the latest Tremendous Bowl, has been more and more upping his off area leisure work and even dabbling within the dramatic arts. Other than his well-liked podcast New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce, Kelce debuted as host of Saturday Night time Dwell in March 2023 and appeared in sketches alongside his brother Jason. He additionally made a cameo look on SNL in an October 2023 episode.

In April, Kelce was confirmed because the host of Are You Smarter than a fifth Grader?, a revival of the sport present that may stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Moreover, Kelce is producing a documentary titled King Pleasure about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. He lately additionally launched his personal music pageant referred to as Kelce Jam, which happened on April 28 in Kansas Metropolis and featured Machine Gun Kelly and Rock Ross.