Here I mentioned The Beauty on this week’s stack review, and Ignition Press drops the trailer. Rather, they get to share the trailer from FX — which means that this dark, sordid sci fi drama will be coming to Disney+ soon…
Executive Producer Ryan Murphy seems to have kept the broad strokes in place. The central conceit of “The Beauty” itself has changed. In the comic by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, the title refers to a venereal disease that people actively want to catch. It melts away fat and sculpts jawlines to turn the infected into objectively hot people.
Except after a while, that hot becomes hot. The comic starts just as authorities are figuring that out. Live with the Beauty too long and it will burn you out from the inside.
On the upcoming TV series, “The Beauty” is a drug. The teaser trailer reveals that Murphy regular Evan Peters stars as one of the detectives trying to bust the drug ring, up against Ashton Kutcher as a billionaire drug lord. The teaser also does more than hint at the literal hotness that comes from shooting up the drug.
It’s a change that makes sense from a Disney-ish point of view. making literal the idea that beauty is addictive. It looks like some of the creepier aspects of the book remain, hinting at the masked serial killer so prominent in the continuation just launched by Ignition Press. As promised last summer, Ignition will release a compendium edition of the original series, covering issues #1-11, on January 20. Which doesn’t give you a LOT of time to catch up by the time the show debuts on January 21. But it’s doable.
I promise you, too, it’s worth it.
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