Elvis and Dune 2 star Austin Butler to play Patrick Bateman in Challengers director Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho remake
Dec. 11, 2024They went with the other Elvis
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Austin Butler is set to play Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s remake of American Psycho.
Varietyreports that the film, penned by Scott Z. Burns, is not a remake, but rather a new adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel (but that’s also what they said about The Crow). Butler is set to play arguably one of the most iconic characters in the horror genre, first portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2000 film. The book is more of a satirical black comedy (and is, in my opinion, much more violent and disturbing), while the feature-length adaptation is more of a horror-thriller than sees white-collar yuppie Patrick Bateman slowly lose his sanity before going on a murder spree of epic and misogynistic proportions.
It was rumored earlier this year that Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Bateman, which is funny considering that both Butler and Elordi played two different versions of Elvis in two very different biopics - Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.
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