mcchrist
04-02-2001, 01:49 AM
You know, I don't like visiting cinescape.com because many times the experience is too damn depressing. Well as it turns out, Lions Gate is thinking about an American Psycho sequel.
"According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lions Gate is said to be going through a number of existing scripts that the studio owns to see if one can be altered easily into a Psycho sequel."
Now I know I, for one, was waiting for years (5 in fact) for an adaptation of the Ellis novel. I was curious to see exactly how it would have been adapted into a film and what direction they would take it as the book had many demensions, it could have been adapted as a slasher, a satire, a comedy, anything. But the whole point of the book was that nothing was to change after its ending. Anything further would trivialize the author's intent. I was pleased with the recent adaptation, it was faithful in its interpretation. If they would do a sequel, I wish they would take the route of doing the original story from one of its other aspects. They could do at least ten different American Psycho remakes faithful to the story and each one would be different (and my theory would be that each one would be damn entertaining). But as it turns out they aren't even going to write original material, they are going to "adapt" other screenplays they own (probably try to mix some of their slasher shit with some gen x garbage). I hope that this project doesn't pan out at all. If it does, I will add Lion's Gate aside of Artisan as my most hated distributers (Artisan for overhyping and destroying films through their ad campaigns like Blair Witch and the very misleading trailers for Ninth Gate (they tried to make it look like some teeny bopper film, which was very unfaithful to the film. Why can't they advertise films as they are and keep the integrity intact) and Lion's Gate for not knowing how to deal with a good thing when they have it. They had no idea how to package American Psycho or Shadow of the Vampire, so in turn they go art house just to be safe and I never get to see them until the DVD release) :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
"According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lions Gate is said to be going through a number of existing scripts that the studio owns to see if one can be altered easily into a Psycho sequel."
Now I know I, for one, was waiting for years (5 in fact) for an adaptation of the Ellis novel. I was curious to see exactly how it would have been adapted into a film and what direction they would take it as the book had many demensions, it could have been adapted as a slasher, a satire, a comedy, anything. But the whole point of the book was that nothing was to change after its ending. Anything further would trivialize the author's intent. I was pleased with the recent adaptation, it was faithful in its interpretation. If they would do a sequel, I wish they would take the route of doing the original story from one of its other aspects. They could do at least ten different American Psycho remakes faithful to the story and each one would be different (and my theory would be that each one would be damn entertaining). But as it turns out they aren't even going to write original material, they are going to "adapt" other screenplays they own (probably try to mix some of their slasher shit with some gen x garbage). I hope that this project doesn't pan out at all. If it does, I will add Lion's Gate aside of Artisan as my most hated distributers (Artisan for overhyping and destroying films through their ad campaigns like Blair Witch and the very misleading trailers for Ninth Gate (they tried to make it look like some teeny bopper film, which was very unfaithful to the film. Why can't they advertise films as they are and keep the integrity intact) and Lion's Gate for not knowing how to deal with a good thing when they have it. They had no idea how to package American Psycho or Shadow of the Vampire, so in turn they go art house just to be safe and I never get to see them until the DVD release) :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: