It appears another Bret Easton Ellis novel is making it to the big screen...I'm a huge fan of his crazy books but the film versions never lived up to the actual books. Although I was happy with Mary Heron's take on American Psycho, I thought The Rules of Attraction sucked and don't get me started on Less than Zero...

This adaptation looks hopeful. It has a great cast and Ellis himself wrote the screenplay.

http://defamer.com/373476...s-fans-too

From Defamer...

When it comes to intertwining underage sex, loveable drug addicts and coldblooded serial killers, nobody does it better than Bret Easton Ellis. So when we heard a while back that The Informers would finally follow in the footsteps of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction and make its way to the big screen, we couldn't have been more giddy. But now, IGN is reporting that Brandon Routh's turn as Jaime, the vampire-like leading man with a penchant for sucking blood, will be left on the cutting room floor; as anyone who has read the book will attest, his character was both a central figure in and a critical element of the depraved stories Ellis included in this book.

The question is this: with no blood, gore, zombie fangs or Superman, will The Informers even be The Informers at all? Or will it just be Less Than Zero: The Sequel, minus the sight of a drugged up and passed out Robert Downey Jr. sprawled on the beaches of Malibu?

Well, even without Robert Downey Jr., we still have a feeling this Ellis flick has a major shot at success, mainly due to the fact that The Informers has one of the most stellar and talented casts we've heard about in some time. The film stars Winona Ryder, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, and bittersweetly, Brad Renfro in his final role. Somehow this mesh of fucked up, problem-ridden stars seems like the ideal group to depict Ellis' vision of a bleak and vapid Los Angeles. The more and more we think about it, the inclusion of the clean-cut and chiseled Routh probably would have just messed up this merry little circle of misery anyway.

this is one of the few bret easton ellis books i've yet to read. of the film adaptations of his work, the only one i've liked so far is 'american psycho'. i'm really scared of the day when 'glamorama' becomes a movie.

Anxiety said:

Straight up.


word!

Anxiety said:

I'm afraid to watch american psycho I think it was clear in the book that he was not like a human, but as a movie I think it would really disturb me.

Imago said:

You're not street!

love him.

Hope the adaptation is done well. I love a good trip to the 80's!

BEE's book are incoherent pulp most of the time.....

I am still waiting for the film-adaption of 'The Secret History', wirtten by BEE-cronie Donna Tartt.....

abierman said:

I hope that this NEVER happens. The Secret History was a destiny book for me. I've read it so many times I sometimes think poor old Bunny actually existed. It's been 16 years since the publication of the Secret History and it has yet to materialize. I have a friend who produces movies and he let me read a copy of the adapted screenplay that's owned by Jake Paltrow. The script that I read left out so much....no Judy Poovey, no Cloke, no Dr. Roland, no Corcorans, no Marion. Basically all the extra characters were left out. And Richard was made out to be some cool California teen as oppossed to the middle-class malcontent.

Don't fuck with this book Hollywood.

TheResistor said:

I thought Gwyneth Paltrow had the adapted screenplay.....really! You can bet it will be a movie someday, I just hope it will be done good!

abierman said:

Her brother did. I think.