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Space Suicide
12-10-2011, 11:49 AM
Noble Jones, who cut his teeth directing commercials, videos for Taylor Swift and Mary J. Blige, and handling second unit for David Fincher on The Social Network, hopes to make his feature directing debut on an updated low budget remake of American Psycho. Jones, who was Grammy nominated for his documentary 10 Days Out: Blues From the Backroads, is a Fincher protege who pitched the project months ago to Lionsgate, which holds the remake rights. Jones turned in a script about a month ago, but the project has suddenly become buzzed about because it hit the tracking reports that have become the cornerstone of trade reporting. His take was to tap the Bret Easton Ellis novel and turn it into a down and dirty new version that imagines how yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman would fare in New York today, factoring in how the world has changed since the 2000 film that starred Christian Bale.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni19276890/

Ick, why? It's 11 years old only and Bale nailed it.

icklekitty
12-10-2011, 11:52 AM
"how yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman would fare in New York today" - so they'd set it in the modern day? Ugh. UGH.

Presideo
12-10-2011, 12:30 PM
I enjoyed the original movie, although it did stray from the tone of the book a little too much (I think Bret Easton Ellis hated the way Bale portrayed Bateman)

However, I doubt a new movie would adapt it any better; they'll likely try to drive a stupid, pandering "Wall Street elite = Horrible, disgusting human beings" story down our throats.

Wretchedest
12-10-2011, 12:54 PM
Damn! and Starship Troopers too...
Nothing is sacred.