New 'American Horror Story' Season Has a Title
by EG
The upcoming season of American Horror Story now has a theme and a look, and the series' network revealed it all on social media this week. The season looks like it will call back some old concepts and cast members, and the we're sure it will be as horrific as always. Read on for details.
The new season of American Horror Story is taking shape.
The upcoming eighth season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's FX anthology is titled Apocalypse, the networked revealed after a late-night stunt at this this year's Comic-Con. Once again, the series took advantage of the annual confab to drop the title reveal, revealing the news on social media early Friday morning.
The upcoming cycle, which premieres Sept. 12, is set to feature the highly anticipated crossover of earlier seasons Murder House and Coven.
— AmericanHorrorStory (@AHSFX) July 20, 2018
The Apocalypse title and imagery (below) appear to be a callback to the antichrist baby of season one's Murder House — Tate Langdon aka The Rubber Man (Evan Peters) and Vivien's (Connie Britton) devil spawn who was left in the care of Jessica Lange's character, Constance Langdon. Of the three, only Peters has been confirmed as a season eight castmember.
Along with Peters, castmembers who are confirmed for Apocalypse, so far, are Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, Cheyenne Jackson, Billie Lourd, Billy Eichner, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman and a new face to the franchise, Joan Collins. Both Paulson and Peters will also be making their directorial debuts.
Murphy had promised the return of fan-favorites — Lange would be a big one — and has referred to the season as a "heightened" one: "It’s not necessarily as real and grounded as the past season. We’re sort of getting back to Asylum and Coven. That’s the tone of it." He later said on Twitter that he has asked all of the Coven witches, who also include Gabourey Sidibe, to return.
Murphy has also suggested that Lady Gaga, who co-starred in the Hotel and Roanoke seasons, would play a part in the Murder House-Coven crossover after revealing in Roanoke that her character was the original "supreme" witch from Coven. Roanoke revealed that her character — named Scathach aka The Witch of the Woods — also birthed an Antichrist baby with the mortal character Matt Miller (played by Andre Holland).
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