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Brett Easton Ellis' THE INFORMERS being adapted by Ellis himself!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some interesting news for you Brett Easton Ellis fans out here. I know everybody loves AMERICAN PSYCHO, but the flick never really hit with me, despite Christian Bale's outstanding lead performance. I did, however, love RULES OF ATTRACTION to death. Ellis' voice is strong and certainly something to pay attention to.
Senator Entertainment has optioned his short story collection (published in 1995) THE INFORMERS and Ellis is writing the screenplay for Nicholas Jarecki to direct. The short stories in this book are all loosely connected, all taking place in LA in the early/mid '80s. Rockers, execs, business men and even vampires are involved. No telling how much of each story will end up in the film version. I haven't read this one, so what are the thoughts of the book's fans? Let me know!
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A little bit of BEE's L.A. scene goes a long way, but there is one story in The Informers that is really great. It's a series of letters from an East Coast college girl who moves to L.A. for a summer job and HATES it. Her letters start out by bemoaning the atmosphere and all the superficiality and etc. of the L.A. scene, but, like a horror movie, her letters slowly begin to change as she becomes seduced by the city and then totally transformed into the very thing she hates. It's the only story in the book I clearly remember, and it's fantastic and creepy and rings true-ish. Can't see it being adapated for the screne, at least not in any literal sense but they could get the point across, I'm sure. -------------------------http://www.intrepidmedia.com/column.asp?id=2652 ------------------
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Cool. I like Ellis a lot. Almost done with Lunar Park right now, his latest one. Really great. fact and fiction combined in a horror story.
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Psycho and Rules of attraction were great reads and ok-movie adaptations but I just couldn't finish the.. hmm.. what was it called? It ended with ...rama. Wellity well, I guess I'll read "The Informers" then..
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Ellis has finally taken charge of his own work! No more geeky, fanboys exaggerating and forging - spewing pretentious dialogue that would never be uttered by..AN of Ellis' documented subgroups. I CALL TO BOYCOTT ROGER AVERY!
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Sep 18, 2006 10:05:11 AM CDT
American Psycho is much better than the too pretentious
by danielkurland
Rules of Attraction. At least in my opinion. However that one shot of Vanderbeek looking evil as hell at the party, staring at the girl is great.
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I also love the rest of his work too. So far I've been pretty happy with the adaptations, both were pretty strong. Not sure how this will come out though. Best story line in it was the yuppie vampires.
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... and the short stories are not so connected, so I'm not sure it will be a good idea to transpose them on the screen. Also I'm not sure, although Ellis is working on the script, that this movie will ever be made one day.
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Now that, I would pay to see.
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I love Brett Easton Ellis' work. American Psycho is genius. Christian Bale nailed the character look and feel but the adaptation was about something else entirely to the book. Although admittedly the themes of an experimental bit of writing don't exactly lend themselves to anything filmable.
Lunar Park is awesome. So ironic that most people missed the point.
Only thing about short story collection is it's obviously his pre-publication school work and I'm pretty sure Ellis himself said he barely remembers writing any of it. Maybe that'd make an adaptation easier though come to think of it. And if it's awful he can only blame himself. Unless they cast Josh Hartnett as something. In which case it's safer to just blame him. -
Psycho wins hands down. Rules was pathetic. Overwrought. Overacted. And, way too gimmicky. Psycho was measured. Great performances. Excellent set design and cinematography. All around, a film in a much better league than that crap Rules.
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Totally agree that ROA worked better as a movie than AP. I think part of the detatchment was externalised in Rules and externalised stuff is just easier to film. AP the novel is all about experimenting with words, styles and internalising this madness. It'd take a longer, more genuinely disturbed film to capture even a glimpse of that. Though, honestly, Bale was perfect. He just looks like a nice guy without a soul when he does that stare. I still can't believe it was nearly Dicaprio. No offence to him but I can't see it.
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didn't he adapt Molly Jong-Fast's (poor) novel "Normal Girl"?
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I'm pretty sure the Informers was put out while people were still clamouring for him to write new stuff when he was young and he was too coked up to manage it. So like a band pulling out it's old demos, they published this. It's interesting if you know the guy's work but like I said, odd as an adaptation. Unless he has some really fleshed out ideas to bring to them.
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an adaptation of PIG by Irvine Welsh.
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Set in Westwood was pretty cool, obvious where he took some of those ideas for American Psycho, that could be an interesting movie in itself...I actually like this book quite a bit, or did when I read it probably 5 or 6 years ago.
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then Rules Of Attraction (the best books not films), not read The Informers, be scared when he announces Lunar Park's adaptation though.....
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