American Psycho: Last News

There’s no denying that Christian Bale is one of the best actors working today. He’s also known as a guy who throws himself into the deep end with a role.

Brace yourselves, readers: this is news no one expected on a Friday October afternoon.  Deadline reports that Luca Guadagnino has yet another upcoming project he’ll direct. Ad on paper, it’s a doozy: Guada will helm a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis‘ 1991 novel “American Psycho” for Lionsgate.  What’s more: Scott Z.

“American Psycho.”Sevigny, 49, and co-star Josh Lucas did an interview with Vanity Fair and looked back on how Bale, 50, used method acting when playing serial killer Patrick Bateman in the 2000 psychological horror film.“I was trying to respect his process, which I found challenging because I’m very gregarious and silly and goofy, unbeknownst to the general public,” Sevigny said in the interview published June 7.“When people take themselves so seriously, I kind of shut down, even though I take my work very seriously and I love acting and whatnot,” she added.The “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” star admitted she was “really intimidated” by Bale’s method acting approach.“And I wanted a little more generosity to make myself feel more at ease, which is my own ego,” Sevigny shared.

“American Psycho” is a film that people fully embrace now, more than 20 years after its release. However, at the time, Mary Harron’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis classic novel was actually thought to be silly and just not good.

It’s been 20 years since filmmaker Mary Harron released his horror-satire film American Psycho, and yet the infamous murder scene, in which Christian Bale brutally kills Jared Leto with an axe, continues to haunt us. The film came out on April 14, 2000, and was praised by critics and audiences. One of the highlights of the film was the stunningly directed infamous murder scene that looked to real to be in a movie. Turns out, there’s a reason Leto looked so convincingly surprised when Bale’s Patrick Bateman came at him with an axe.