'American Crime Story' Season 2 Key Players Revealed as Hurricane Katrina Story Is Confirmed
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Ryan Murphy reveals that producers are looking to cast officeholders including then-President George W. Bush in the upcoming second installment of the FX anthology series.

AceShowbiz - The plan for "American Crime Story" to tackle Hurricane Katrina has been revealed since January, but it hasn't got a green light until now. "We want the events that brought America together and also that shine a light on the parts of America that maybe we don't want to acknowledge," said executive producer Brad Simpson at the TCA panel.

"I think with Katrina there's a lot of stuff. This was a natural disaster waiting to happen, and it will happen again in America," he added. "There were crimes that happened during Katrina. Murders, rapes, you know, and there's also the crime of us not rescuing these people and not being prepared to take care of New Orleans."

The producer said they wanted to steer clear of another courtroom drama after successfully depicting the controversial murder of Nicole Brown Simpson in the first season. "We don't want to repeat ourselves, and that's part of the thing. We did the crime of the century. We like to define crime broadly," he explained.

"I love true crime, but I just don't love one kind. We'll probably someday pick maybe something along the lines of a less famous case that has great, juicy stuff. We'd like to tell the story of injustice. We wish we had 'Making a Murderer' or 'Serial'. ... but, you know, those (topics) have been done. We're exploring lots of formats throughout history."

Soon after the Hurricane Katrina story was confirmed, Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr. and John Travolta from the first season, "People vs. O.J. Simpson", expressed their interest in taking part in the next installment. In fact, Paulson said she's "begging on my hands and knees" to be included in the second season of the FX anthology series.

"We'd like to use as many actors as we can. It's gonna be subject to availability whether we have the right roles," Simpson responded. "We'd like to figure out if there are roles for them." Ryan Murphy agreed, "I don't think it's going to be like American Horror Story where you see almost the entire troupe return. You will see some people, but not all of them."

While the cast members are still to be determined, the key players are teased. Ryan Murphy revealed that they're looking to cast former President George W. Bush, who took a lot of heat for the poor handling of the 2005 crisis and never recovered politically after the natural disaster. Other government officials like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco will be cast as well.

"I want this show to be a socially conscious, socially aware examination of different types of crime around the world," Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter. "And in my opinion, Katrina was a f***ing crime - a crime against a lot of people who didn't have a strong voice and we're going to treat it as a crime. That's what this show is all about."

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