Lionsgate Rebooting ‘American Psycho’
Yesterday we reported that Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns hinted at the possibility of bringing back the SAW movie franchise. And while it was more of a hint than a confirmation, we find ourselves wondering if it could take back the Halloween box office spot from Paranormal Activity. But Lionsgate is looking into remaking their previous properties. According to Variety, the studio is no looking to reboot American Psycho, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name. The original American Psycho starred Christian Bale as the lead character, and was released in 2000.
Here is the synopsis of American Psycho:
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.
The original American Psycho was a polarizing movie that had critics on both sides of the fence. Some gave it praise while others held the film in contempt. Author Bret Easton Ellis said, “American Psycho was a book I didn’t think needed to be turned into a movie,” as “the medium of film demands answers,” which would make the book “infinitely less interesting.”
That being said, it should be interesting to see how Lionsgate approaches this reboot.
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