This one’s for all you AMERICAN PSYCHO fans. It looks as though a film is being made of author Bret Easton Ellis’ last novel, LUNAR PARK, a book which I found to be slightly disappointing, but still compelling, like most of the writer’s work (the best of which might be the truly f*cked-up GLAMORAMA). Ellis himself is a character in the book, but don’t look for him to play himself. In fact, the choice to play the middle-aged white guy is quite interesting – Benicio Del Toro.
At least, that’s what Ellis thinks is going to happen. In an interview with MTV, Ellis dropped the news that the new Wolfman is potentially starring in LUNAR PARK as the troubled writer, whose life begins to fall apart due to a series of mysterious – and supernatural – incidents. No director is attached yet, but it appears that Ellis himself wrote the screenplay, which Del Toro apparently digs.
Here’s the plot crunch for LUNAR PARK, courtesy of Amazon: Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.
Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety–only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father’s, his stepdaughter’s doll violently “malfunctions,” and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events–a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son’s age–Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
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