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.
Still no distributor for "Bucking Fastard," "Alpha Gang," "The Last Photograph," "Closing Night," and "The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd." The issue seems to be quality more than a lack of willingness to buy.