Ellis takes hostages

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

Bret Easton Ellis is digging further into the movie business.

Last month I informed you that he had written a screenplay for the film version of his novel LUNAR PARK, which may star Benicio Del Toro one day. Well, the AMERICAN PSYCHO and LESS THAN ZERO author has moved on already, penning an untitled screenplay about an awkward social outcast who takes hostage a group of peers who humiliated him, with grim results. If you’ve ever read AMERICAN PSYCHO or Ellis’ really bizarre GLAMORAMA, you know that the man has a penchant for vividly describing some truly nasty acts, so I can only imagine what “grim results” are in store for us…

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