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Brett Easton Ellis' THE INFORMERS being adapted by Ellis himself!!

Read it.... by The Colonel	Sep 18th, 2006 08:55:40 AM
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 ------------------
First? by Corsair	Sep 18th, 2006 08:56:33 AM
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. That's hot.
ROCK ON! by thenewpulper	Sep 18th, 2006 09:37:11 AM
Another senseless mish-mash of misfired characters, drugs, debauchery and pointlessness! Oh, yeah! I prefer Palahniuk.
Sounds really interesting by DonnieDorko	Sep 18th, 2006 09:39:06 AM
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..
Set in the early/mid '80s by BannedOnTheRun	Sep 18th, 2006 09:47:53 AM
Wasn't that when people still cared what BEE wrote?
Denser the Better by popjunkie	Sep 18th, 2006 09:49:04 AM
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!
Glamorama... by jpdisco	Sep 18th, 2006 09:51:02 AM
Was the best one...what's happened to Roger Avary's adaptation? Looking forward to the Informers - excellent book.
American Psycho is much better than the too pretentious by DanielKurland	Sep 18th, 2006 10:05:11 AM
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.
If you've never actually read American Psycho... by Flexfill	Sep 18th, 2006 10:10:13 AM
and only seen the movie, you really should experience it because the book so terribly disturbing. You kind of want to wash your hands after handling the book. That's the best way I can describe it. But that's not actually a bad thing.
Psycho is one of my favorite books. by brycemonkey	Sep 18th, 2006 10:17:59 AM
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.
THE INFORMERS isn't a very good book actually. .. by zachary mayo	Sep 18th, 2006 10:27:28 AM
... 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.
Brett Easton Ellis' "The Transformers." by Christopher3	Sep 18th, 2006 10:33:48 AM
Now that, I would pay to see.
Informers by auraboy	Sep 18th, 2006 10:44:35 AM
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.
American Psycho VS Rules of Attraction by JacksonsPole	Sep 18th, 2006 11:27:04 AM
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.
JacksonsPole: that is interesting... by brycemonkey	Sep 18th, 2006 12:14:11 PM
I prefer AP the book to Rules but I like Avary's Rules better as a film. AP was a good attempt at a pretty un-makeable book. However it didn't hit all the right notes for me (despite Bale's fantastic performance). Perhaps I am just too close to the source material to be objective.
Odd that the movies worked that way by auraboy	Sep 18th, 2006 01:18:37 PM
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.
Ellis is a wonderful author, but... by beamish13	Sep 18th, 2006 01:34:00 PM
this is easily his worst book, one that I really don't think should have even been published. Most of the stories are aimless, and lack the bite of "Less Than Zero", which was written after the majority of them (I saw Ellis at a signing in 2005, and he said that he hasn't written a short story since 1986, which may be a good thing).
WEHT Ellis' other scripts? by beamish13	Sep 18th, 2006 01:41:57 PM
didn't he adapt Molly Jong-Fast's (poor) novel "Normal Girl"? FYI Quint-"Bret" only has one "T".
This collection... by auraboy	Sep 18th, 2006 01:48:33 PM
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.
Roger Avary HAS to do this by jackinitraw	Sep 18th, 2006 02:49:03 PM
Otherwise we risk another Mary Harron bastardization. Without the God of hellfire I have no interest.
The screenplay by auraboy	Sep 18th, 2006 04:33:06 PM
Will be about a young writer called Bret Easton Ellis writing a screenplay for a collection of short stories he barely remembers writing when he wasn't famous. Then Patrick Bateman turns up at Christian Bale's house and the narrator changes without any warning. There's also Jay McInery in there somewhere. Probably reading the short stories aloud. While fucking a dead hooker. On coke. And admitting he's bored. In the 80's. - This is only a guess.
I'd rather see... by vivavitalogy	Sep 18th, 2006 06:00:30 PM
an adaptation of PIG by Irvine Welsh.
The vampire story... by Poacher	Sep 18th, 2006 10:16:29 PM
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.
Less Than Zero, American Psycho.... by barnaby jones	Sep 19th, 2006 05:39:29 AM
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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