"Scream Queens" is Ryan Murphy's latest horror project. For the uninitiated, Murphy is the creator of the FX anthology, "American Horror Story," which is now on its fifth season. Knowing the callous nature of the latter, will Murphy go easy on the brutality with Fox as the show's home?
Thankfully, star Keke Palmer is here to give an insight. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the former Nickelodeon star, who is set to appear in the series, revealed that Murphy will not scale back on the sinister sorts he is notorious for.
"I think that he is keeping that same, heightened, extreme grounded-ness. How he does it, I have no idea. But that is very much so a part of Scream Queens," Palmer explained. "And also, the comedy. He finds the balance in light of the dark. It's fun to play," she continued.
Murphy, on the other hand, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that "Scream Queens" has its similarities and dissimilarities with "American Horror Story" in various aspects, but there's more of the latter rather than the former.
While both shows are "anthological," "Scream Queens" is very much different in terms of the cast treatment. He revealed to the publication that there will only be four out of 25 characters that will make it out alive.
These four, he explains, will "go on to a new horror genre — like a sorority is a horror genre to me, it's a place where there were horror movies in the '80s like Sorority Row — and they will go on. That's the format of the show."
"It's sort of like a twist on American Horror Story: every season is a new season, a new setting, a new establishment — the difference being you will know some of the characters who will live," he expounds.
In an interview with E! Online, Murphy described "Scream Queens" as a Heathers-Friday the Thirteenth "hybrid." The horror-comedy welcomes a star-studded ensemble with "American Horror Story" star Emma Roberts leading the pack as the Kappa Kappa Tau president, Chanel Oberlin.
According to People, along with Roberts and Palmer are Ariana Grande, Lea Michelle and Abigail Breslin. Jamie Lee Curtis, the original scream queen, will be there too. "These girls are kick-ass. They're not waiting for a boy to come in and rescue them. They're the ones doing the rescuing," Murphy told E! Online.
The series will follow a sorority group, who becomes a target of a mysterious murderer, ultimately rocking the whole campus with a series of gruesome killings. Singer Nick Jonas is also set out to join the party. "Scream Queens" is set to air this fall.