“I’m the greatest goddamn advertisement for the hottest new super drug that makes you effortlessly beautiful,” says Ashton Kutcher‘s “The Corporation” as he parties on a yacht at the opening of the official trailer for FX‘s The Beauty. But this super drug has horrifying consequences.
Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson’s The Beauty is based on a comic book series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley. In it, the world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Evan Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Rebecca Hall) are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences. Their path leads them directly into the crosshairs of “The Corporation” (Kutcher), a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed “The Beauty,” who will do anything to protect his trillion-dollar empire—including unleashing his lethal enforcer, “The Assassin” (Anthony Ramos). As the epidemic spreads, Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), a desperate outsider, is caught in the chaos, searching for purpose as the agents race across Paris, Venice, Rome and New York to stop a threat that could alter the future of humanity.
The Beauty is a global thriller that asks: what would you sacrifice for perfection?
Guest cast includes Bella Hadid, Isabella Rossellini, Ben Platt, Jessica Alexander and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Created and written by Murphy and Hodgson, FX’s The Beauty is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Michael Uppendahl, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin and Jeremy Haun, who serves as a consultant. The Beauty is produced by 20th Television.
FX’s The Beauty premieres with three episodes on Wednesday, January 21 at 9 p.m. ET on Hulu and 9 p.m. ET/PT on FX.
Check out the trailer above and previously released teaser below.
