Almost three years after landing Sarah Paulson-starrer Ratched Netflix announced that Ryan Murphy’s asylum drama series, inspired by the evil nurse Ratched from one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, will be released on September 18. The streamer also released some first-look images: they and the key art are below.
Ratched, by Murphy and Ian Brennan and executive producer of the film’s producer Michael Douglas, takes place in the middle of the 20th century in Northern California, where Mildred Ratched (Paulson) gets a job in a psychiatric hospital as a nurse. The series will follow the nurse’s early days navigating the mental health system and her journey to the head nurse in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel.
The origin story, created by Evan Romansky, also stars Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon, Finn Wittrock, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, Harriet Harris, Hunter Parrish, Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, Sophie Okonedo and Vincent D ‘Onofrio.
Douglas is an executive producer on the series alongside Murphy, Brennan, Paulson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Robert Mitas and Tim Minear.
