One of TV's biggest producers is taking on one of entertainment's great villains.

Netflix has ordered 18 episodes of Ratched, an origin story for the infamous nurse from the Oscar-winning One Flew Over's the Cuckoo's Nest. Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Feud) will produce and Sarah Paulson, a frequent Murphy collaborator, will play Nurse Ratched.

Another big name, Michael Douglas, will serve as executive producer along with Murphy. Douglas was a producer of the 1975 film, which won the best picture Oscar. The film was adapted from Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, which followed characters at an Oregon psychiatric hospital.

Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched, and Jack Nicholson, who played psychiatric patient R.P. McMurphy, won acting Oscars for their portrayals in the film.

Murphy will direct the first episode of the series, which comes from writing newcomer Evan Romansky, a recent film school graduate. Production is scheduled to begin next year. It marks the first streaming series for Murphy, whose shows are usually seen on FX or Fox.

The series, whose episodes will be split into two seasons, will start in 1947 and follow the nurse as she transforms into a monstrous figure in the years leading up to her encounter with McMurphy.

Paulson, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Marcia Clark in 2016's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, is now starring in Murphy's latest edition of the AHS anthology, Cult, which premiered this week on FX.

She is also scheduled to star in an upcoming season of Crime Story, also an anthology, that will deal with the consequences of Hurricane Katrina.