Lionsgate is remaking American Psycho for modern times

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

It’s pointless to get on the soapbox and start ranting about the ridiculousness of remakes – especially of movies that are hardly 10 years old – so let’s just cut to the chase before my head explodes…

Variety has learned that Lionsgate is currently developing a remake of AMERICAN PSYCHO. Noble Jones – whose only credit on IMDb is as 2nd Unit Director of the Boston sequences in THE SOCIAL NETWORK – will direct the project, which is described as “low budget”. Jones is apparently a protege of David Fincher’s.

Jones approached Lionsgate with the idea for the remake, although instead of being set in the 80s, as Bret Easton Ellis’ book and Mary Harron’s film are, it will explore how Patrick Bateman would fare in modern day Gotham.

Let me guess: He goes around slaying Occupy Wall Streeters..?

The film has not received an official greenlight yet; it’s currently in the early stages of development at the studio.

If, somehow, you don’t know what AMERICAN PSYCHO is about, here’s the product description for the novel: 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.

AMERICAN PSYCHO star Reese Witherspoon