There was no way in Hell that any studio would greenlight a straight-up literal adaptation of AP. And it would've have a tough time getting distribution...NC17 probably. The MPAA would've had a stroke.

Granted, it would be cool to see, for us Ellis fans, but it just won't happen unless it's a straight-up indie deal.

Jena

New York, NY

June 2003

OCT 01, 2008 09:23 PM

Cassiel said:

Jena said:

Cassiel said:

lil_tuffy said:
It can't be much worse than the movie.

what didn't you like about the film?

It wasn't true to the book. If this adaptation doesn't depict Bateman fucking a severed head in the mouth, I as a reader will feel dishonored again.

Fuck you, give me severed head skull fucking!

HeyThatsMyShoe

Australia

April 2007

OCT 02, 2008 02:11 AM

You guys know much about the film of The Informers? I've read that it sucks, that it doesn't have the vampires, but Ellis did co-write the screenplay, so I don't know. I've just read about it at Not An Exit, the blog on Ellis.
I liked Mary Harron's and Roger Avary's films of his novels, but I think it kind of follows that a screenplay co-written by Bret would be more true to the spirit of the source material, more Ellis-esque, than theirs were. Which should be cool.

lil_tuffy

MODERATOR

San Francisco, CA

OCT 02, 2008 02:24 AM

HeyThatsMyShoe said:
You guys know much about the film of The Informers? I've read that it sucks, that it doesn't have the vampires, but Ellis did co-write the screenplay, so I don't know. I've just read about it at Not An Exit, the blog on Ellis.
I liked Mary Harron's and Roger Avary's films of his novels, but I think it kind of follows that a screenplay co-written by Bret would be more true to the spirit of the source material, more Ellis-esque, than theirs were. Which should be cool.

The vampires are the best part! Hopefully, they'll make that a full-length release.

adam_vincent

Austin, TX

November 2002

OCT 02, 2008 03:25 AM

lil_tuffy said:
It can't be much worse than the movie.

Blasphemy !

HeyThatsMyShoe

Australia

April 2007

OCT 02, 2008 11:53 PM

Bret Easton Ellis himself on American Psycho, the movie:

Don't get me wrong, it's a movie I admire. I am by no means embarrassed by it and I liked it a lot. I just thought it didn't really capture the sensibility of the novel. It was too chilly, too elegant. I thought the novel itself was a lot wilder and crazier. Director Mary Harron placed the movie within a feminist context and put quotation marks around it and I don't think the movie needed that.

aleksa

Tacoma, WA

April 2006

OCT 03, 2008 08:03 AM

Still a better idea than the RHPS remake.

dingoes8

Milwaukee, WI

March 2004

OCT 03, 2008 08:30 AM

lil_tuffy said:
It can't be much worse than the movie.

I remember saying the movie couldn't be much worse than the book when it came out.

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