Is a Broadway musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho” novel going to be the best fucking thing ever?
Hell fucking yes, but can we somehow convince the producers of this thing to cast Christian Bale for at least the first week run?
The film adaption of the ’80s materialist serial killer, directed by Mary Harron isn’t perfect by any means and looks cheap as all get out (production values, people, please!), but Bale’s majestically absurd turn as the batshit loony Patrick Bateman is still utterly fantastic.
Patrick Bateman: I don’t want to get you drunk, but, ah, that’s a very fine Chardonnay you’re not drinking.
The film is a cornucopia of brilliant lines that will sing through the ages, so we’re hoping some of these brilliant moments are sung on stage in full musical fromage force (we’re getting our tickets as soon as they go on sale).
THR says no director, author, songwriters or actors have been booked yet, but they hope to have the play ready for 2010. The good news that Ellis and Edward R. Pressman, the producers of the aforementioned film, “American Psycho” are being brought on as consultants. No song have been secured yet, but producers are hoping to clamp down rights to the Talking Heads, Genesis and Huey Lewis and the News (mentioned extensively in the novel and film).
Patrick Bateman: Harold, it’s Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You’re my lawyer so I think you should know: I’ve killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old f—–t with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can’t remember maybe a model, but she’s dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell’s Kitchen. I don’t want to leave anything out here. I guess I’ve killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um… I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it this time. I guess I’ll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I’m a pretty uh, I mean I guess I’m a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry’s Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.
“American Psycho”: Lawyer Confession Scene (this shit is brilliant)