Editing Bret Easton Ellis (section)

===Adaptations===
In May 2014 [[Bravo (U.S. TV channel)|Bravo]] announced that it had teamed up with ''The Rules of Attraction'' feature film adaptation writer/director Roger Avary and producer Greg Shapiro to develop a limited-run series based on the novel. The plot will stray from the source material and is described as follows: "Inspired by the book and film of the same name, the high-concept series takes the students and faculty at the fictional Camden College and unravels a murder mystery by telling the same story through 12 different points of view. Children of the 1%-ers live as unhinged and wild adults in a Bret Easton Ellis world with seemingly no rules to hold these privileged few down." Titled ''Rules of Attraction'', the series will be written by Roger Avary (''The Rules of Attraction'', ''Beowulf'') for Lionsgate TV with Greg Shapiro (''Zero Dark Thirty'') serving as an executive producer.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2014/05/bravo-developing-rules-of-attraction-series-adaptation-scripted-projects-set-in-shanghai-marthas-vineyard-727468/ |title=Bravo Developing 'Rules of Attraction' TV Series |magazine=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> In a 2013 interview with [[Film School Rejects]], Ellis stated that he doesn't think the original ''[[American Psycho (film)|American Psycho]]'' "really works as a film":<blockquote>American Psycho I also don't think really works as a film. The movie is fine, but I think that book is unadaptable because it's about consciousness, and you can't really shoot that sensibility. Also, you have to make a decision whether Patrick Bateman kills people or doesn't. Regardless of how [director] [[Mary Harron]] wants to shoot that ending, we've already seen him kill people; it doesn't matter if he has some crisis of memory at the end.<ref name="FSR">{{cite web|work=[[Film School Rejects]]|title=BRET EASTON ELLIS: 'AMERICAN PSYCHO' DOESN'T WORK AS A MOVIE|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/features/bret-easton-ellis-american-psycho-doesnt-work-as-a-movie.php|author=Giroux, Jack|date=August 7, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222084954/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/bret-easton-ellis-american-psycho-doesnt-work-as-a-movie.php|archive-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref></blockquote>

On a 2014 appearance on the ''[[WTF with Marc Maron]]'' podcast, Ellis indicated that his feelings towards the film were more mixed than negative; he reiterated his opinion that his conception of Bateman as an unreliable narrator did not make an entirely successful transition from page to screen, adding that Bateman's narration was so unreliable that even ''he'', as the author of the book, did not know if Bateman was honestly describing events that actually happened or if he was lying or even hallucinating. Ellis appreciated that the film clarified the humor for audiences who mistook the novel's violence for blatant misogyny as opposed to the deliberately exaggerated satire he had intended, and liked that it gave his novel "a second life" in introducing it to new readers. Ultimately, Ellis said "the movie was okay, the movie was fine. I just didn't think it needed to be made".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_552_-_bret_easton_ellis |title=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode 552 - Bret Easton Ellis |work=wtfpod.com |date=November 20, 2014}}</ref>