Lady Gaga is BFFs with Donatella Versace (heck, she even wrote a song about her) and now it looks like she may get the chance to play the fashion icon too.

American Crime Story creator Ryan Murphy got tongues wagging at Entertainment Weekly's PopFest on Sunday (October 30) at the prospect of recruiting Gaga for an upcoming season.

The showrunner will be tackling the story of Gianni Versace's murder in 1997 for season three, and during this weekend's panel, the moderator suggested that Gaga would make "the perfect Donatella."

Murphy replied: "Ya think?" and then grinned to a rapturous reception.

The role would mean a re-teaming of Murphy and Gaga after working together on American Horror Story: Hotel and the current season.

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American Crime Story, which kicked off with The People vs OJ Simpson, will explore the Gianni murder in season three, after portraying the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in season two.

Speaking of the storyline, Murphy explained: "I was always very moved and freaked out by the Versace assassination, and I thought it was a really great story to do because it's a manhunt season.

"[Serial killer Andrew Cunanan] killed four people and then Versace, and was on the loose. We're exploring the reasons of how he got away with being undetected."

He added: "The tragedy of the Versace murder was that it should not have happened. He should have been caught by then. But he wasn't caught because he was targeting gay people, and people didn't care.

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"That's why Gianni Versace was killed, for the most part. So it's a really tragic story and I've always said the thing that makes me cry the most in the world is lost potential, or lost possibility, and I think he was such an amazing force taken too soon for reasons which he shouldn't have been. That is a true crime story in America, so we're tackling that."

The two seasons will shoot simultaneously, and the Versace season is expected to air after Katrina: American Crime Story in 2017.

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