Netflix's Hollywood Is A Glitzy Ryan Murphy Fever Dream Starring Your Faves

Ryan Murphy is lending his unique touch to the glitzy world of Netflix's upcoming miniseries Hollywood. Right now, you could finally take in the opening full-length trailer for the salacious new drama.


Starring Murphy mainstays like Darren Criss and Dylan McDermott, with Broadway icon Patti LuPone along for the ride, the series explores an audience of aspiring actors and filmmakers in a post-World War II Hollywood setting as they "try to create it in Tinseltown – no matter the cost."


Involving iconic Hollywood actors like Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) and Vivien Leigh (Katie McGuinness), this series is more than just an assemblage of pretty faces of the period. It's also a new vision of the film industry with some most crucial changes.


The product of a partnership between Murphy and series director and writer Janet Mock, Hollywood explores an alternate version of history where ladies and writers of color are given the same chances as straight white boys back in the golden days of the film industry.


"We turned to the past for direction, uncovering buried history to spin an aspirational tale of what ifs: What if a musical group of outsiders were given a chance to tell their own story? What if the person with greenlight power was a woman? The screenwriter a black man? What if the heroine was a woman of color? The matinee idol openly gay? And what if they were all invited into the room where the decisions are made, entering totally and unapologetically themselves to leave victorious and vaunted, their place in history cemented," mentioned Mock of the series.


There's a veritable menagerie of stars appearing in the series as well: Queen Latifah, Samara Weaving, Laura Harrier, Rob Reiner, Mira Sorvino, and David Corenswet, who strips down for a particularly steamy moment the trailer. Case in point, he's very much one of the reasons fans are so excited to be able to see how this series plays out.


Hollywood is set to hit Netflix on May 1. That should be plenty of time for you to get ready for your close-up.