The movie that made me notice and start to like Christian Bale as an actor is now apparently coming to Broadway. According to The Hollywood Report, American Psycho will be adapted into a Broadway musical to hit the stage somewhere around 2010.
Producers are betting Bret Easton Ellis’ novel and screen adaptation will translate to a stage musical, with original 1980s-inspired songs and familiar covers of hits from the era.
No director, book writer or songwriters have yet been brought on board the project, but producers say they’re in early talks with some potential dramatists and hope to stage by 2010 with an eye for Broadway. Musical killers have had mixed success onstage, from the acclaimed “Sweeney Todd” and tepidly received “Assassins” to the disastrous “Carrie.”
[Producer David] Johnson said that, aside from a love of the controversial 1991 Simon & Schuster bestseller, his main inspiration for staging the project is “the great economic divide in this country.” Citing his years as a Wall Street lawyer in the ’80s, he said he’s aiming for a tone that’s “very real, (though) obviously exaggerated.” [THR]
To jog your memory of the great movie that is American Pyscho:
The Business Card Scene
The Paul Allen scene & rant about Huey Lewis are also classic
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