Last Updated on December 13, 2024 by Angel Melanson
Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho remake has officially found its Patrick Bateman in Elvis and Dune star Austin Butler, Variety report today.
As previously reported, Guadagnino and Lionsgate's American Psycho will not be a remake of Mary Harron's 2000 film famously starring Christian Bale as the yuppie serial killer, but instead a new adaptation of the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
The new script for American Psycho comes from Scott Z. Burns (The Laundromat).
Anyone who has read Easton Ellis' novel will know that American Psycho was censored in multiple countries for its incredibly graphic depictions of torture and murder, not to mention extreme sexual content. If Luca's filmography is anything to go by, he isn't exactly shy about depicting those things. He's also no stranger to adapting novels, as Call Me By Your Name and Queer prove.
Funnily enough, as Variety note, Jacob Elordi (Saltburn, Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming Frankenstein) was highly rumored to be playing the Wall Street maniac – making it a battle of the Elvises, as Elordi also starred as the crooner in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla.
American Psycho won't be Butler's first foray into horror (presuming Guadagnino's film leans that way) – the Oscar-nominated star has also had turns in The Intruders, Yoga Hosers and The Dead Don't Die.
He'll also be seen in Eddington, the next feature from Hereditary and Midsommar's Ari Aster.
No more news on American Psycho as of now, but we'll bring you updates faster than you can return those videotapes.
