American Psycho TV series reportedly in development - Let's see Paul Allen's garbage tv pitch

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

No concrete details yet but said to be in production by Lionsgate's chairman in an interview with Deadline.

https://deadline.com/2021/04/lionsgate-television-strategy-john-wick-saw-american-psycho-series-kevin-beggs-interview-1234718117/

"We’ve just wrapped up Dear White People which was a really good experience, Blindspotting is coming up, American Psycho is in development."

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

"We’ve just wrapped up Dear White People which was a really good experience, Blindspotting is coming up, American Psycho is in development."

This does not sound good. It's probably going to be about a white cop.

 

[albert chan]

>this is fine

 

[BrunoMattei]

Making it a limited series would work. But it's probably not going to be that. If I had to make a guess then I'd say it's going to be inspired by the Hannibal TV series. The difference there is that you had a series of books to work with and build upon. What is there to build on with American Psycho? I could see them making it more about Bateman's interaction with the upper crust of society, Vanity Fair bullshit, Wall Street bullshit and all that. Cap it off with a murder per episode. It might work but I'll wait and see.

 

[kūhaku]

I can see this being sort of like a Dexter, where it has a strong first season and everything after just getting much worse due to not having material. There's a reason that its a single book, and a single movie, because its meant to be a short contained story with a conclusion. If it turns into a multi season thing it will without a doubt be terrible.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I can see this being sort of like a Dexter, where it has a strong first season and everything after just getting much worse due to not having material. There's a reason that its a single book, and a single movie, because its meant to be a short contained story with a conclusion. If it turns into a multi season thing it will without a doubt be terrible.

You really have to look at what kind of skeleton they could base an American Psycho TV show on. When you look at Hannibal, the skeleton is clearly detective shows. But with an added twist. Bates Motel is a drama with significant horror/whodunnit elements. An American Psycho show could only work if you set it within the confines of a day to day Wall Street drama or make it an ironic drama. Which I don't think would work too well because it would have to be set with Bateman as the main character and when you start giving him motivation to kill and back story and all that you then lose a critical aspect of the character. He has no reason to do what he's doing in the book and movie. It could only be surmised that his lifestyle has left him with an emptiness he feels he can only replace by destroying others.

 

[verissimus]

By Lionsgate? They're still around, and they have enough money to even produce this?

 

[Wayneright]

Will we get to see this scene?

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I doubt that Bret Easton Ellis will be involved other than getting the obligatory creator credit. He's made a patreon only podcast talking against PC culture and being against social justice. I'm sure Bateman will be some evil white male that'll eventually be snuffed out by some trans queer POC.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Will we get to see this scene?

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Careful what you wish for. They could make the anti-Semitism that ran throughout the novel a B plot... Kind of like the Watchmen TV show.

I doubt that Bret Easton Ellis will be involved other than getting the obligatory creator credit. He's made a patreon only podcast talking against PC culture and being against social justice. I'm sure Bateman will be some evil white male that'll eventually be snuffed out by some trans queer POC.

He's largely retired from writing. The last thing he did was a series of essays ranting about the culture wars. Before that, there was Imperial Bedroom which acted as an in name only sequel to Less Than Zero and it was dog shit. The two movies he's written are not particularly good either. I was willing to give him benefit of the doubt on The Canyons because it seemed like Paul Schrader's decision to cast Lindsay Lohan was an act of self-sabotage. But then I saw The Smiley Face murders which opened well but dragged and was unsatisfying.

 

[Jack Awful]

They already ruined American Psycho.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Will it be as good as American Psycho 2?
I hope so

*yeah I’m slow on dialup

 

[BrunoMattei]

They already ruined American Psycho.
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That reminds me, years and years ago now, Ellis was talking about writing a sequel. Patrick Bateman in Hawaii maybe?

 

[JuanButNotForgotten]

I'd say it's going to be inspired by the Hannibal TV series

I can see this being sort of like a Dexter

Making American Psycho all about murders is like making Fight Club all about fighting i.e. complete failure and I am sure that would be exactly what they would go for. God, I hate modern entertainment industry.

 

[A Useless Fish]

The movie made me want to read the book when I was a teenager. The book helped make me who I am. I used to be able to quote whole paragraphs from it, I read it so much.

The movie is a fucking meme-machine, and I can almost guarntee that the people making this may be aware of it, and try and do the same thing with the series, in a cynical attempt to generate interest, which will fail. As others here have already said: they will make this, while completely missing, or even unintentionally proving, it's point. They don't have to balls to really adapt this, anyways. You think, in this woke hell we are living in, that somebody's gonna approve the rat scene?

 

[Carlos Weston Chantor]

I love this idea. I'm not gonna watch it but the American Psycho incel teen fans are annoying, it's the closest thing to male Harry Potter fans. There's like 1000s of dudes with American Psycho profile pics on twitter. I hope they make a netflix American Psycho tv show and the american psycho is a black lesbian working in a big tech company who murders white males for not being diverse enough

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Will we get to see this scene?

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I wish there was an audiobook of American Psycho narrated by Christian Bale.

 

[BrunoMattei]

You think, in this woke hell we are living in, that somebody's gonna approve the rat scene?

You never know. Hannibal kept the scene where Verger cut off his face and fed it to dogs.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Amercian Psycho... in our modern climate? It would have made sense in the Occupy Wallstreet era, but the studio overlords would never allow that. So here we are now and it'll be SJW as fuck.

Bateman will be a white supremacist who hunts down and suffocates black men whining that they can't breef. Just you wait, his NRA and GOP membership will be a major focus of the first episode

Odds on him using 4chan, though?

 

[Standardized Profile]

I think they'll go the other way. Bateman will be woke yuppie Dexter. He'll kill hedge fund managers for investing in non-green energy companies. He'll kill traders for looking at his secretary wrong. He'll stand up for sex workers' rights. He'll lavish praise upon (looks up Emmys Grammys) Billie Eilish, Beyonce, and H.E.R. And you better cool it with the antisemitic remarks, or he's coming for you.