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Movie Wars goes solo on the American Psycho remake: a thought piece on the Luca Guadagnino version, the casting, and the near-impossible job of putting Bret Easton Ellis on screen honestly.

Kyle has read American Psycho twice, counts Ellis among his favorite authors, and still thinks Mary Harron's 2000 film might be the rare adaptation that improves on the book, mostly by finding the comedy and fighting for Christian Bale when nobody else wanted him. So the new version has a strange job in front of it. Luca Guadagnino is directing, Scott Z. Burns is writing, Lionsgate is behind it, and the word out of the production is that it will no ...