I’m well aware that hundreds of horror titles are churned out year after year and so originality is a struggle for the best talents out there. Still there are hordes of fresh ideas, twisted concepts and other such directions taken in the genre so why must we all simply settle for rehashed ideas and that dreaded word ‘remake’. No matter how you spin it; redo, reimagining, redux – it doesn’t matter, it’s all effectively the same thing. One movie I wouldn’t have ever dreamt that would require a remake is Mary Harron’s ‘American Psycho’. The serial killer thriller from 2000, which starred Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Chloë Sevigny, Willem Dafoe and Jared Leto, was extremely accomplished and an extremely well executed adaption of Bret Easton Ellis’ original novel. So why the frig is Noble Jones penning a potential new script? It’s being touted as a “down and dirty re-imagining” but the word unnecessary just doesn’t do enough to emphasise the fact that it simply isn’t needed. Variety have stated however that Lionsgate, the studio behind the controversial idea, have made it clear that this is by no means a greenlit project at the stage. Let’s hope it stays that way!
Here’s a brief rundown of the original, which, if you haven’t seen I would recommend!
“Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.”
Patrick Bateman Goes Psycho Over ‘American Psycho’ Remake
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