Naomi Watts to lead FX's Feud: Capote's Women, with Gus Van Sant set as director

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Ryan Murphy has set a Season 2 follow-up to 2017's Feud: Bette and Joan. Season 2 will star Watts as Babe Paley, wife of former CBS head William S. Paley, who ruled the glamorous world of New York society in the 1960s and 70s. Tony and Pulitzer-nominated playwright and veteran TV writer Jon Robin Baitz will write all eight episodes and serve as showrunner. Van Sant will direct all episodes. Feud Season 2 is an adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. Capote's Women is "set in the 1970s, and ends with Truman Capote’s death in 1984," per Deadline. "It chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author as he stabs several of his female friends — whom he called his 'swans' — in the back by publishing a roman à clef short story called 'La Côte Basque 1965' in Esquire in 1975. The piece was intended to be a chapter in Capote’s infamous unfinished novel Answered Prayers, his followup to the blockbuster In Cold Blood."