It’s been reported by The Insneider that Lionsgate is keen on doing a modern-day version of Bret Easton Ellis‘ American Psycho.
A New American Psycho
Lionsgate owns the IP for adaptation and is apparently open to a writer taking killer suit Patrick Bateman into the 21st Century with a version of the character more befitting the modern age. Plenty of inspiration out there in the business world, that’s for sure.
Lionsgate had pondered a remake 12 years ago, but nothing ever came of it, while Easton Ellis had pondered where Bateman might be in the modern world.
Of course, American Psycho has famously already been adapted before with the now iconic Christian Bale performance as Bateman in Mary Harron’s film from the year 2000. in the original story, a wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
There was also a regrettable sequel from 2002 by Morgan Freeman (no, the other one), which was tenuously connected to the first film and starred Mila Kunis as the new psycho killer. It also stars William Shatner, and while Patrick Bateman is in the movie, he is, unsurprisingly, not played by Christian Bale.
Outside film, the novel has been adapted into a musical that once saw House of the Dragon and Doctor Who star Matt Smith play Bateman.
the novel’s author, Bret Easton Ellis, is currently concocting his own cinematic yuppie horror movie with Relapse, starring Stranger Things and Fantastic Four’s Joseph Quinn.
