Austin Butler has signed on to be the brand new Patrick Bateman in director Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho remake
2025 will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of director Mary Harron’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it HERE), which has come to be often called a cult basic – and as an anniversary reward, we’re getting an American Psycho remake from director Luca Guadagnino, whose credit embody Challengers, Name Me By Your Title, Bones and All, Queer, and the Suspiria remake. The primary movie was carried by the unimaginable efficiency delivered by lead actor Christian Bale… and now we all know who can be following in Bale’s footsteps. Selection studies that the character of Patrick Bateman in Guadagnino’s movie can be performed by Austin Butler, who’s greatest recognized for his Oscar-nominated efficiency in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Harron’s American Psycho had the next synopsis: Patrick Bateman is a younger, good-looking, Harvard educated Wall Avenue success, seemingly excellent along with his gorgeous fiancé and entourage of high-powered associates. However his circle of associates doesn’t know the opposite Patrick Bateman, the one who lusts for greater than standing and materials issues. With a detective sizzling on his path and temptation in every single place, Patrick Bateman can’t battle his horrible urges that take him on the pursuit of ladies, greed and the final word crime – homicide! Primarily based on the controversial guide by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho is a horny thriller that units forth a imaginative and prescient that’s each terrifying and chilling. Harron wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner.
Scott Z. Burns is writing the screenplay for the brand new movie. Burns has beforehand written The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!, Contagion, and Facet Results, amongst different issues.
The Selection article notes that this won’t be a direct remake of the 2000 movie, however relatively a brand new adaptation of Ellis’ novel. And “while Butler is attached to play the lead role in the movie, Guadagnino might have have interpreted the Patrick Bateman character in a much different way than its previous incarnation.” Selection had heard rumors that Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) was within the operating to play Patrick Bateman, however the job has gone to Butler. Like Butler, Elordi has performed Elvis Presley (with Elordi enjoying the rock icon in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.) Austin Butler has additionally been seen in Masters of the Air, Dune: Half Two, The Bikeriders, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Useless Don’t Die, Dude, Yoga Hosers, The Intruders, The Shannara Chronicles, Arrow, and The Carrie Diaries.
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