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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 14, 2017 8:53:57 GMT
What happened to this supposedly in development TV series? via Entertainment Weekly: FX is developing a TV-series sequel to Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial modern classic American Psycho.
The novel told the story of a wealthy young investment banker in the late 1980s who moonlit as a serial killer. A film version starring Christian Bale was released in 2000. The FX version will be set years after the events in the book and star a Bateman in his 50s who takes on a new apprentice.
The official logline: “In the new drama series, iconic serial killer Patrick Bateman, now in his mid-50’s but as outrageous and lethal as ever, takes on a protégé in a sadistic social experiment who will become every bit his equal — a next generation American Psycho.”
The project will be written by Stefan Jaworski and co-produced by Lionsgate and FX. Allison Shearmu, Jaworski and Ed Pressman are executive producers.
If greenlit to series, American Psycho would continue a serial killer trend on the airwaves right now, including A&E’s Bates Motel, NBC’s Hannibal and Fox’s The Following. The titles have drawn some controversy for contributing to TV violence, but the genre has proven this last year that it can deliver ratings.
Presumably coincidentally, the FX show would also continue a title streak on the cable network. FX first launched horror-thriller American Horror Story, then spy thriller The Americans and is now working on American Psycho. Perhaps FX and USA Network should trade names?
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 16, 2017 20:42:57 GMT
Musical Rights sale report from NYtimes: ‘American Psycho’ Musical Planned Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF SEPT. 24, 2008
He sings, he dances, he commits horrific acts of torture, murder and cannibalism: Patrick Bateman, the disturbed protagonist of “American Psycho,” is slated to slice his way onto Broadway in a musical adaptation of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, Variety reported. Rights for a musical version of “American Psycho,” about a 1980s-era investment banker turned serial killer with an abiding affection for the music of Phil Collins, were acquired by the Johnson-Roessler Company; the Collective, a management and production firm; and XYZ Films. Christian Bale, above, played Bateman in the 2000 film version. No announcements have been made about the Broadway creative team or cast.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 29, 2017 22:02:43 GMT
From a write-up on London's American Psycho stage musical in NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/theater/londons-dark-musicals-american-psycho-and-stephen-ward.htmlDeath by Huey Lewis and the News (surely a fate no one deserves) figures prominently in “American Psycho,” as it did in the movie version. The musical’s first act ends in Patrick’s apartment, as he takes an ax to a rival (in both business and sartorial perfection), while Mr. Lewis’s “Hip to Be Square” plays on the stereo. The contrast of that song’s peppy blandness and the gruesomeness of Patrick’s notion of playing host came across more chillingly in the film, which starred Christian Bale.
In this version, directed by Rupert Goold with a set by Es Devlin (both hot names these days), the scene feels oddly inert. The combination of Jon Clark’s red-streaked lighting and Mr. Smith’s curdled expression never quite gels into the required shock effect. For a world that has since feasted regularly on prime-time fare like “Dexter” and “The Blacklist,” such limply abstracted bloodletting can feel watery.
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The show also makes the mistake of exaggerating Patrick’s nerdy inferiority complex. While Mr. Smith (like Mr. Bale) has a masklike face with killer cheekbones and dead eyes, he doesn’t really feel very scary. O.K., maybe when he’s waiting for a date with a nail gun in his lap.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 30, 2017 22:09:33 GMT
Ben Brantley's review of the Broadway Musical starring Benjamin Walker: www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/theater/review-american-psycho-hits-broadwayso-smooth-so-rich-so-ruthless.htmlThe obligatory Bale mention: In the succeeding decades, it has come to be widely regarded as a bold and anguished satire of the dehumanizing, consumerist 1980s, less disgusting than morally disgusted. That point of view was crystallized in Mary Harron’s sharp-witted 2000 film adaptation, which starred Christian Bale in one of his earliest expert profiles in brooding fatuity (see: “American Hustle”).
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 10, 2017 18:17:46 GMT
From a review on The Village Voice:On Broadway, 'American Psycho' Is a Little Too Sane TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016 AT 9:30 A.M. BY MIRIAM FELTON-DANSKY
Aguirre-Sacasa captures the story with concise dialogue, and theatrical form allows for hilariously stagy choices. ... But what's missing is darkness and ambiguity. Both book and film use Patrick's rampage as a metaphor for larger and ultimately more destructive kinds of violence: the AIDS crisis, which lurks at the edges of Ellis's text; the widening chasm between rich and poor, registered in Patrick's taunting of the homeless; even the forms of global violence that American capitalism perpetuates (in the film's last scene, as Bateman confesses to his killing spree in a fancy restaurant, Reagan holds forth on television in the background).
Some of these elements make token appearances onstage, but the production is comparatively tame.
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