American Psycho Goes to Broadway
Patrick Bateman may have been a very unhappy investment banker at Pierce & Pierce who never could get a reservation at Dorcia's, but at least he will be getting his own American Psycho Broadway musical!
I doubt Bret Easton Ellis ever envisioned his violent/satirical look at the age of excess to be portrayed as a song and dance gig, but we've seen far stranger (The Fly: The Opera anyone?). However, according to THR, the think-tank of Johnson-Roessler Co.'s David Johnson, Craig Roessler and Jesse Singer, the Collective's Aaron Ray and XYZ Films' Nate Bolotin have banded together with the film adaptation's producers, Ellis and Edward R. Pressman, to bring Bateman's sexual and violent antics to the stage.
A date of 2010 has been set for American Psycho's debut, though no director or songwriters have been brought on board. The rights to songs created by Huey Lewis and the News and other '80s bands have yet to be obtained, which could really make or break it for some fans.
Now, if you'll excuse me ... I have to return some videotapes.
- Syxx
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Did any of that treatment make its way to the public?
Submitted by Kryten Syxx on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 6:47pm.
"I doubt Bret Easton Ellis ever envisioned his violent/satirical look at the age of excess to be portrayed as a song and dance gig"
Actually, when the film version was going through development hell, Brett Easton Ellis actually tried to convince them to make it as a gory musical satire. He even wrote a treatment where the final dance number was a chorus line of blood-soaked wall street businessmen dancing through times square. Part of me still wants to see that more!
Submitted by Sirand on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 6:30pm.
You know... you JUST know... that somewhere soon in the midst of all this musical m'larky, "Saw: The Musical/Opera" is going to happen!
Submitted by PelusaMG on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 7:16am.
And the gradual dumbing down of culture continues!
Submitted by Terminal on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:40pm.
Come on, Gus... you don't want The Dark Knight: The Lyrical Drama?
How about Van Helsing: The Rock Opera? Halloween: The Musical? 300: The Broadway Play?
Submitted by Kryten Syxx on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:34pm.
Yea haha what about Carrie the muu...oh..wait
OR even better The Fly the Op..er...ummm
Oh shit they could do Lestat the....damn....
Submitted by Nomad on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 9:15am.
Could you imagine someone making a musical out of the Evil Dead?
Wait...they did?!?!
It's this one joke novelty approach that bothers me. It's the only reason I can come up with why hearing about the musical adaptations sets me off when I'm usually cool with remakes. Although lately the volume of remakes being done and announced is finally starting to piss me off. As far as this announcment goes, musicals have long drawn off other sources of course. Some of the horror/monster musicals work. Little Shop of Horrors to name one of the top of my head. Rocky Horror was more or less original so that doesn't count. It sounds like The Fly works. The Evil Dead was a series of cute gags that would have gotten old in a 10 minute SNL skit let alone a full show. But just like remakes it seems to depend on whether the people behind it are digging into and just like anything else, if it puts money in the cash register that's what they are going to do.
Submitted by Gus Bjork on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 10:36am.
What the fuck!?! Jesus, can someone just write a good fucking original musical? I'm gonna summon friggen Cole Porter from the great beyond and command him to gay haunt every goddamn musical theater in the US until someone does. Enough already!
Submitted by Gus Bjork on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:24pm.
This could either be epic win or epic fail.
Submitted by Hunter1006 on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 9:29pm.