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Director Mary Harron with Christian Bale on the set of American Psycho (2000)

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Unnecessary Remake of the Day: Lionsgate is reportedly moving forward with a remake of American Psycho penned by music video director Noble Jones.

Jones, whose only major motion picture experience comes from directing the second unit for David Fincher’s The Social Network, is better known for his work on music videos for Taylor Swift and Mary J. Blige.

If all this hasn’t put you off this idea yet, Deadline says the project will have a small budget, and the film will reportedly be set in modern-day New York, as opposed to late-80s setting of Bret Easton Ellis’s critically acclaimed novel.

There is no word yet on a timeframe, and the development is still in its infancy, so, with any luck, this project will go the way Lionsgate’s insipid American Psycho sequel should have gone.

[variety / deadline.]

Two scenes featured unexpected improvisation by Christian Bale. When Bateman is jumping rope, he starts to skip and cross his jump rope as a schoolgirl would. Bale surprised director Mary Harron even more by starting to dance as Bateman was preparing to kill Paul Allen (Jared Leto). That time, she says in interviews and the commentary, she collapsed with laughter.

A sign reading “This is not an exit” is shown in the closing scene. These are the last words of the novel.

The events that Bateman mentions in the phone message to his lawyer are events that transpired in the book by Bret Easton Ellis, but not in the film.

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable… I simply am not there.

During production, Christian Bale followed the morning routine that his character Patrick Bateman describes toward the beginning of the film.

To block the three-way sex scene with two prostitutes, Mary Harron and Christian Bale watched x-rated tapes. In her commentary, Harron says Bale made stick-figure drawings of the positions he thought would work best.

The only parts of the movie that author Bret Easton Ellis didn’t like was Bateman’s moonwalk during Paul Allen’s murder-scene and the voice-over, which he felt was “too explicit”.