The Magnificence is beginning off with a bang.

CreatorRyan Murphy previewed his upcoming FX sci-fi thriller at New York Comedian Con on Saturday night, showcasing unique footage and teasing “exploding supermodels” and “loads of physique horror” within the first few episodes. He was accompanied on the panel by collection stars Evan Peters, Jeremy Pope, Ashton Kutcher, Rebecca Corridor, and Anthony Ramos.

Murphy defined that the collection, which relies on Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley’s graphic novels of the identical title, facilities round a “fountain of youth drug” created by billionaires that appears too good to be true. Spoiler alert: It very a lot is.

“As a result of it's a sci-fi present, there’s a catch. They quickly discover on the market's a glitch within the shot during which you solely final 855 days or one thing and you then explode, after which it's throughout,” Murphy teased on stage. “As our story begins, which I like doing, there's a rash of exploding supermodels all around the globe who’re captured on cellphones. So Evan and Rebecca are known as in to research.”

Footage proven on the occasion featured mannequin Bella Hadid going right into a rageful frenzy and dumping a pot of sizzling water on herself, in addition to Peters and Corridor’s F.B.I. brokers touring to Venice to research the homicide of a mannequin present in her mattress together with her chest sliced into ribbons and a mysterious marking left in blood by her door.

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Previous to the clip, Murphy defined to attendees that the mannequin’s dying was not a aspect impact of the drug, however fairly successful carried out by Ashton Kutcher’s character. No, because it seems, the explosive unwanted effects of the drug — “self-ignition ketosis,” as Murphy described it — are a lot worse.

“The purpose of the present, by the best way, throughout these transformations, is that you simply take the wonder and when your time is up, your time is up,” the creator mentioned. “You actually burn from inside and also you collapse into what seems to be one thing out of the film Alien. We known as it the flesh sacks. After which from that comes a rebirth.”

In one other scene, Ramos and Pope’s characters enter a house seemingly searching for a girl solely to search out a big gloopy pink sludge residue left in entrance of her fridge. An virtually feral lady then assaults the pair, biting at Ramos and sending him to the bottom earlier than Pope stops her with a frying pan to the again of the top.

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Pope famous that the rebirths have been a “very bodily” course of. “What I believed was actually attention-grabbing — that we talked about early on — was simply in regards to the rebirth within the sense of watching somebody learn to use their new physique,” he mentioned. “And [Murphy] mentioned one thing to me the place it's like, ‘I need to watch this particular person go from being 8 years previous studying the best way to transfer and stroll to this 30-year-old highly effective, robust being.”

Because of this, he defined that it turned much less “in regards to the horror and the ache of the physique breaking” and virtually extra like a “ballet.” He continued, “It turned somebody discovering this interior and outer magnificence that they’ve been looking for, so I believed that was actually attention-grabbing. After we have been speaking about, ‘Nicely, what the f— is the transformation?’ you need it to be screaming and bone breaking and it’s that, however then there’s additionally one thing actually lovely about it.”

Murphy famous that the collection is instructed via a "mixture of actually heightened genres," including, "It has superb motion sequences. It has loads of physique horror. It has an incredible love story. It has an incredible buddy-comedy factor happening, and it has an incredible villain."
Within the closing scene, Kutcher’s biotech billionaire may very well be seen ignoring medical doctors’ recommendation in regards to the drug and as a substitute telling them to dilute its combination in order that it makes them more cash.

Kutcher defined on the occasion that he does contemplate his character to be a “good man,” if solely as a result of the billionaire actually does suppose that he’s doing the appropriate factor. “This man has created a drug that makes you essentially the most lovely model of your self and other people need it. Why is that dangerous?” he requested. “It's dangerous as a result of perhaps you didn't inform folks they're gonna explode, but it surely's not an issue as a result of I fastened that, too! With the boosters! So it's an incredible gig and an incredible deal for everybody!”

He added, “Whenever you get braces, you bought to go to the dentist and nonetheless clear your tooth! They acquired a fall-in trial state of affairs! You gotta hold spending cash!”

Whereas a launch date for The Magnificence has not been formally introduced, Murphy revealed on the panel that it's slated to be launched someday in "the third week of January" 2026.

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