Last week we wrote up a post titled “Does Bret Easton Ellis Hate ‘The Informers?'” due to an interview with MTV.com we came across that suggested the novelist was perhaps less than thrilled about the way the film adapted his self-penned screenplay.
“The director shot it a certain way, and he made all these choices to drop certain stuff, and focus on this. As a writer, you definitely feel a certain lack of control.” he said. “It’s a painful process.”
Well, apparently Ellis, an avid reader of ThePlaylist, read the piece and disagreed with our assumption. In an interview with the A.V. Club, the author responded to a question regarding the trouble he had getting a faithful representation of his original script by saying, “Someone told me yesterday, “Oh, you know, it’s on the ’net that you really hate The Informers,and you’re really down on it.” And I had to look this thing up. The headline was, “Does Bret Easton Ellis hate The Informers?” Because of some online interview I did, there’s this suggestion that I’m not truly happy with the movie. But no, that’s not true at all. I’m friendly with Gregor and the producers and…”
There you go, we were apparently wrong. Ellis — who previously said, “The script that I wrote is not really on the screen,”– says he approves of the film.
“The Informers,” comes out Friday, April 24th and currently holds a certified 11% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.