American Psycho remake!

[phantomstranger]

And now for something completely...pointless:

Lionsgate Developing American Psycho Remake
Source: Variety
December 8, 2011


Variety is reporting that Lionsgate has hired Noble Jones to write a new version of American Psycho, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Jones was previously a second-unit director for The Social Network.

The book, which was previously turned into a film in 2000 featuring Batman star Christian Bale, is described as follows:

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Read more: Lionsgate Developing American Psycho Remake - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84997#ixzz1fzf2l7v5

[Elvis_Christ]

Good. Hope they do the book more justice this time round. Bale was great in the role but the film itself was way to dumbed down.

[Anthropophagus]

I agree,the movie didn't do the book justice.

I also like Bale but not the movie though,so for once a remake is welcomed by me but i am not holding my breath.

[Elvis_Christ]

I agree,the movie didn't do the book justice.


It sure didn't. Although my main complaints about the film wasn't the sanitising of the extreme elements of the book it'd be interesting to see how that's handled this time round. Mainstream films like Saw and Hostel since the originals release that have pushed the boundaries a bit in regards to on-screen gore have made it a whole different playing field.

Hopefully the characterisation isn't as hollow this time and it digs deeper into the book's underlying themes.

[Tangleduponblue]

No way they'll get such a good cast, but if they can trade some of that aforementioned style and artistry for good old fashioned gore and a higher body count, then it could work.

[TheMeatyLegend]

So now they are remaking movies from 2000. Have studios finally just stopped trying.