Bret Easton Ellis is finally directing his first feature. The author and screenwriter will direct horror film “Relapse.” Ellis penned the script about a man (played by Joseph Quinn) who witnesses a brutal death during a drug party and embarks on an existential crisis upon entering rehab (via Variety).
Ellis’ novels have been adapted into films, most notably 2000’s “American Psycho.” His latest semi-autobiographical novel “The Shards,” is also set to be adapted into an HBO series — Ellis, Kristoffer Borgli and Luca Guadagnino will be sharing directing duties for that one.
Meanwhile, Ellis, American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, director, has always pushed buttons in the cultural zeitgeist. After all, this is the man who created “American Psycho” and Patrick Bateman, a work and character of transgressive art that warned us about the bleakness of today’s world.
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