Austin Butler Set to Star as Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘American Psycho’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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variety.comAustin Butler is set to star in Luca Guadagnino‘s new interpretation of the book “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis for Lionsgate.
While there had been rumors that Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Patrick Bateman, that casting didn’t come to pass. Elordi and Butler have something in common, having both played very different versions of Elvis in movies by Sofia Coppola (“Priscilla”) and Baz Luhrmann (“Elvis”), respectively.
The film, which features a script by Scott Z. Burns (“The Laundromat”), will not be a remake of the 2000 film, but a new adaptation of Ellis’ novel.
In the original movie, which came out in 2000 and is set in the 1980’s, Christian Bale stars as Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer.
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