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Ryan Murphy’s ‘American Love Story’ Taps Max Winkler To Direct Pilot After Naomi Watts & Paul Kelly Join Cast


Max Winkler is set to direct American Love Story, the first installment of Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series, sources tell Deadline.

In the first season, focused on JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, what started out as a beautiful union for the young couple, widely regarded as American royalty, began to fray under the stress of the relentless microscope and navel gaze of tabloid media. The pressures of their careers and rumored family discord ended with their tragic deaths when his private plane crashed into the ocean on a hazy summer night off the coast of Massachusetts. Watts is repped by CAA, Linsten Management, Markham Froggatt & Irwin, Grant Tani Barash & Altman, Untitled Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson Teller.

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