Following the smash success of The People v. O.J. Simpson, FX has announced that it is diving even deeper into American history for another tantalizing Ryan Murphy collaboration titled Feud. Like American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Feud will also be an anthology series, and has already lined up a stellar cast and premise for its first run.

On Thursday, FX revealed that Murphy regular Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon will play Old Hollywood’s rivaling grandes dames Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, respectively, in the first eight-episode iteration of the series. The project will explore the bitter feud between the women and their eventual on-screen collaboration in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which received five Academy Awards nominations. Per FX, the pilot is partly based on the script Best Actress by Jaffe Cohen and Michael Zam.

The Oscar-winning actresses will be joined by a fantastic ensemble cast, including Alfred Molina (as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? director Robert Aldrich), Stanley Tucci (as studio titan Jack Warner), Judy Davis (gossip columnist Hedda Hopper), and Dominic Burgess (as Crawford and Davis’s co-star Victor Buono).

Murphy will direct several of the episodes and executive produce along with Brad Pitt. Sarandon and Lange will also have a creative say, as they will also be working on the drama as producers. Production begins this fall, with the series debuting on FX sometime in 2017.

In a 2000 Vanity Fair piece, veteran producer William Frye recalled his friendship with Davis during production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?:

I’d always known Bette didn’t exactly love and admire the woman she began to call La Belle Crawford; it soon became apparent, however, that she actively despised her.

“Is it you, sending me one rose every day?” she asked me over dinner one night. ”It’s not me.”

“Well, somebody is sending me one damn rose every day in a lousy little bud vase, and it’s driving me crazy. If you’re going to send roses, for God’s sake, send a dozen, or more.”

She soon found out that the roses were coming from her co-star, and she was repulsed.

While What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was being filmed, Bette’s autobiography The Lonely Life was published. I was at her house when she opened the box of complimentary copies her publisher had sent her. She gave me one and inscribed it, “To dear Bill, who has made this life a little less lonely.” I could hardly believe her honesty.

A few days later, a small crisis involving the book arose: “La Belle Crawford wants an autographed book.”

“Give her one,” I said.

“But what will I write? I sure as hell can’t start out with ‘Dear Joan.’”

The next time I stopped by her house, she was in a very good mood. “I autographed a book for La Belle Crawford. I wrote, ‘Joan, Thanks for wanting my autograph. Bette.’”

In a press release, FX Networks C.E.O. John Landgraf said of the network’s collaborations with Murphy, “Feud adds a third and equally ambitious franchise to Ryan’s unprecedented slate of FX anthological limited series and marks our third such collaboration with studio partner 20th Century Fox Television/Fox 21. The series will offer a seductive, insightful look at what lies behind legendary personality conflicts.”

Fox Television Group co-chairmen and co-C.E.O.s Dana Walden and Gary Newman added, “With Jessica and Susan headlining, it’s already sure to be flawlessly acted, wildly entertaining, and fiercely provocative. It’s a fantastic project which only Ryan Murphy could deliver.”

Take a look at Davis and Crawford in action below and imagine Sarandon and Lange reviving their iconic roles.