American Psycho TV series reportedly in development - Let's see Paul Allen's garbage tv pitch

[Product Placement]

I could see doing something like the Fargo tv show would work but just remaking the movie/book into a tv show is just pointless.

 

[karz]

No thank you. The movie was great. Don't ruin it's status with a shitty TV show.

 

[frozenrunner]

I wish I could listen to B.E.E.'s podcast so I could see how annoyed he is by this.

But lol @ paying for podcasts.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I would actually love to see them try to "Woke-ify" American Psycho.

Do they make Bateman a woman and say that a deranged woman serial killer is empowering?

Do they make Bateman a POC who is justified in murdering all the whites?

Do they redeem Bateman and make him realize women shouldn't be his targets and turns against white men?

 

[Oats12345]

I doubt that Bret Easton Ellis will be involved other than getting the obligatory creator credit. He's made a patreon only podcast talking against PC culture and being against social justice. I'm sure Bateman will be some evil white male that'll eventually be snuffed out by some trans queer POC.

I always love how Bret Easton Ellis explan how he became "anti anti Trump" because he was around a lot TDS suffers that it got so ignoring that he decided to become anti anti Trimp because of it. I love how despite him being gay. He doesn't let that define him and brings up how offer PC culture is for storytelling.

I wish I could listen to B.E.E.'s podcast so I could see how annoyed he is by this.

But lol @ paying for podcasts.

Yeah I saw him on both Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin's shows. But I don't want to pay for his podcast.

 

[Seminal Ointments Lain]

LET'S SEE THE RE-MAKE'S PHYSIQUE

 

[frozenrunner]

Yeah I saw him on both Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin's shows. But I don't want to pay for his podcast.

When his podcast was free, it was outstanding. For someone so close to the entertainment industry, he's very level-headed and willing to speak his mind no matter who it offends.

I don't blame him for the pay wall... I think he saw this woketard moral panic thing coming and decided to insulate himself from it.

Ver archivo adjunto 2115147

LET'S SEE THE RE-MAKE'S PHYSIQUE

It's going to be an infinifat Black disabled tranny.

 

[Ahriman]

I wonder if it's also going to include bits and pieces of Ellis's previous book (later turned into a movie), "Less Than Zero".

 

[Muttnik]

Let me guess.

MEN BAD!!!
MASCULINITY BAD!!!
TOXIC MASCULINITY TURNS PEOPLE INTO SERIAL KILLERS!!!11

Spare me. There are better things I can do with my life than ruin yet another form of media I love.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Yeah I saw him on both Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin's shows. But I don't want to pay for his podcast.

I had some money left over on a gift card, used it to subscribe to his podcast and downloaded as much as possible. What I do have is on my external hard drive. I should upload them. He just wanted to make money, he never said anything shockingly controversial.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I wish I could listen to B.E.E.'s podcast so I could see how annoyed he is by this.

But lol @ paying for podcasts.

Several years ago he mentioned talking to a director who wanted to do a remake but preserve the gore in the book. He seemed into it. I don't think he'll rant and rave about the TV show because his Hollywood ties are hanging by a thread and unlike someone such as Stephen King he doesn't have fuck you money and clout.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g4oPo5BBxA8
I wonder if it's also going to include bits and pieces of Ellis's previous book (later turned into a movie), "Less Than Zero".

Oh, that would be interesting. But his brother Sean isn't mentioned by name in American Psycho. So, it could be a rights issue. Fox/Disney still might own Less Than Zero's adaptation rights but does that cover TV? Who knows? Also, Ellis might be entitled to get the rights back to it by now.

 

[A Useless Fish]

Oh, that would be interesting. But his brother Sean isn't mentioned by name in American Psycho. So, it could be a rights issue. Fox/Disney still might own Less Than Zero's adaptation rights but does that cover TV? Who knows? Also, Ellis might be entitled to get the rights back to it by now.

I'm pretty certain that Sean is mentioned by name in the book. He and Patrick have dinner at one point. Patrick gives him a shitty birthday present. Patrick is also mentioned in Less Than Zero. He has a single PoV chapter, where he's thinking about Sean, their dying father, and therefore their inheritance.

Patrick also has a cameo in Glamorama, where it's implied he just finished murdering somebody before he runs into the MC of that story. He's also kind of the villain in Lunar Park, where Bret Easton Ellis is a fictional version of himself, who is being stalked and tormented by the characters he created.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm pretty certain that Sean is mentioned by name in the book. He and Patrick have dinner at one point. Patrick gives him a shitty birthday present. Patrick is also mentioned in Less Than Zero. He has a single PoV chapter, where he's thinking about Sean, their dying father, and therefore their inheritance.

Patrick also has a cameo in Glamorama, where it's implied he just finished murdering somebody before he runs into the MC of that story. He's also kind of the villain in Lunar Park, where Bret Easton Ellis is a fictional version of himself, who is being stalked and tormented by the characters he created.

I know Patrick has a cameo in Rules of Attraction but I've read American Psycho twice and honestly blanked on Sean's role. So, I'll take your word on that one. What's interesting is that Lionsgate also put out Rules of Attraction so they might own the Sean character as well.

 

[A Useless Fish]

I know Patrick has a cameo in Rules of Attraction but I've read American Psycho twice and honestly blanked on Sean's role. So, I'll take your word on that one. What's interesting is that Lionsgate also put out Rules of Attraction so they might own the Sean character as well.

Sorry, you're right. Patrick's in Rules of Attraction, not Less Than Zero. Sean's role in American Psycho is very minimal. He's clearly spaced out on drugs, and Patrick's only talking to him because the family lawyers asked him to. The best part of the scene is that it takes place in Dorsia, which Sean was able to get reservations for, which drives Patrick up the fucking wall about, especially when it turns out Sean knows the chef, and won't introduce them.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Yeah this had the capacity to be a beautiful nightmare now that I've thought about it for a second based on one word:

How?

 

[BrunoMattei]

Yeah this had the capacity to be a beautiful nightmare now that I've thought about it for a second based on one word:

How?

I thought Hannibal would be awful but it ended up being my favorite horror TV show ever. So, benefit of the doubt and all that.

 

[Aunt Carol]

As part of the original movie campaign, you could sign up for "emails from Patrick Bateman" written by Ellis.

They were essentially a sequel: Bateman PoV, modern era, he'd had a kid and the empty status-seeking around a child-prop was built on pretty well from the original. This was a long time ago, so I don't remember a lot of specifics.

Anyway, I'm pretty much in the camp of:

Stop. Think. Does This Property Need Rebooting?

 

[Secret Asshole]

American Psycho is one of my favorite books and movies. This is making me vomit.

The problem is that in American Psycho, the book and the movie, it is INCREDIBLY unclear whether Bateman is a killer or not. Or if he is one, who exactly he killed. American Psycho, at its heart is about narcissism, excess, shallowness and blatant uncaring of the modern world. The problem is that it would be a DIRECT criticism of anything it is trying to portray. Twitter, influencers, all of them would be targets. The excessive wealth and ifluence.

Bateman himself is completely unreliable as a narrator. In the movie there are things like a disappearing blood trail when he's supposedly dragging a body away, or a realtor who urges him to get out without explanation.

The realtor scene could be indicative of the person just not giving a shit and hiding the bodies because she wanted to show the property or that she's disturbed by this nutjob coming in. Bateman's real personality is that of a nerdy dreamer as emphasized in the last few moments of the movie, just really questioning how much we've seen is real. We don't know if he's a murderer. We don't know WHO he's murdered if he is one. It is impossible to tell what is real and what is not.

"“…there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this—and I have countless times, in just about every act I’ve committed—and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing….”

Is ANYTHING in TV today going to top that? Anything fucking ever? This is fucking unbelievable as nobody today has the competence to do this.

Oh, by the by, the movie was written, directed and produced by women. One of whom went to the ultra-progressive Sarah Lawrence. So yes, women made the American Psycho movie. (And when Christian Bale was showering all the women turned up on set to watch). So the problem is even back then, you had women's groups protesting the movie. You had the book shrink-wrapped in book stores. And they still went through with it.

American Psycho is done wrong if you're not getting protests and going off with a smug smile and a middle finger. The second you issue an apology, you know its done wrong. Fuck. I hate this shit. American Psycho is not for a sequel, its not for a TV series. Its not a thriller. Its not about Bateman getting caught or the detective on his trail or any of that stupid TV bullshit. Its about the analysis of this one character who pretends to be something he isn't, pretending to be powerful in a world of excess, narcissism and coldness where he is so small and insignificant, that the only thing he feels will get him any recognition is not success, but murder.

This show will fuck it all up. There is no way you can pull off a thoughtful, abstract show like this. Every scene needs to be seen through the eyes of Bateman and needs to constantly manipulate you. Also.......FEED ME A STRAY CAT

 

[Pickle Dick]

American Psycho is not for a sequel

you mustn't have ever heard about this abomination. it wasn't even meant to be an american psycho sequel, they just said it was and went with it.

 

[The Valeyard]

you mustn't have ever heard about this abomination. it wasn't even meant to be an american psycho sequel, they just said it was and went with it.

Yeah, Patrick Bateman wasn't in the original script so that subplot was tacked-on when a studio executive decided they could make more money by marketing the movie as a sequel.