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thedailywhat:

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.]

You know what’s particularly stupid about this? There’s no reason to even invoke the American Psycho title! Just make a movie about a psychotic business man, and add enough small changes that it doesn’t matter what similarities it shares with the great book and great movie. Hollywood does this shit all the time! What can possibly be gained by calling it American Psycho, other than trying to sucker the 500 people who remember how good this movie was back in 2000. I mean, Bale’s American Psycho was a small flick, and didn’t make a ton of money, so it’s not like there’s anything to gain from the title reacquisition. Meanwhile, the new version is set in modern times, and the 80s setting was a HUGE part of the story (the absurd wall street wealth foisted upon a generation of wasps desperate to superficially one up each other), which makes it pretty clear they’re not that interested in the finer points of the story.

I don’t know. It’s not like this is a special case. It’s just really, really dumb.