Japanese Covers of Rules, Informers

Via Tristan, here are some Japanese covers of The Rules of Attraction (on the left) and The Informers. These were actually sent in a very long time ago, but I archived the email before I ever grabbed the attachments.

More Interest In Lunar Park

Variety has a bit of Lunar Park film gossip in a story about the opening of Denzel Washington's Deja Vu. Apparently Adam Goldberg is in negotiations with Ellis to get the rights to make a Lunar Park film and Val Kilmer may end up with the lead role.

This is a bit strange, since last we heard, Palm Star had the movie rights and it looks like they still have Lunar Park as an active project.

Advice For Bret Easton Ellis

The NY Times has an essay up today called Name That Book wherein they present some trivia and let you guess the answers multiple choice style. Question 6 deals with Less Than Zero.

Bret Easton Ellis's mentor, Joe McGinniss, had two pieces of advice after reading the manuscript of Less Than Zero. One was that Ellis should not use his middle name ("You'll sound like such a twit"). The other was, "And you should call your book..."

a. "Home for the Holidays"
b. "Winter Vacation"
c. "Season's Greetings"
d. "Kids Today: Who Can Figure Them?"

The answer is in the extended entry after the jump

Lunar Park Movie Trailer

Lunar Park Teaser Trailer at YouTube!

I'm not sure how legit it is, and I don't really care - because its neat regardless. Seven more screencaps after the jump.

Russian Covers

Via Andrey, here are some Russian covers of Ellis' novels. All of these can be purchased at Ozon.ru if you like to collect the foreign covers.

This first batch is from American Psycho:

Russian covers of Glamorama and The Informers after the jump.

Online Chat With BEE

21st Century Lit has a transcript from a recent online chat with some college newspaper editors. Its a pretty long chat, but I did find it interesting that Ellis still says that Glamorama is his favorite novel. Usually, writers fall in love with whatever their most recent work is - especially when they are still trying to sell copies of it.

Award For Lunar Park

Back in June, we mentioned that Lunar Park had been nominated for an International Horror Guild Award. Well, the awards were handed out on November 2nd, and Lunar Park won the Best Novel award!

Previously: IHG Horror/Dark Fantasy Awards.

Bret Explains The Crutches

An explanation of how/why Bret hurt his ankle via Bett's Blog, and how he decides its time to start a new novel:

I talked with Bret Easton Ellis who was walking on crutches. He was talking to a couple and I didn't want to intrude but then I realized this couple was boring him so I got a little pushy and asked him how he gets to the point where he can actually begin a novel. He said it's when you don't care about it as much, like when you don't give a fuck anymore and it's just for fun. He hurt his ankle because the klonopin he'd been taking for years leeches the calcium out of his bones and he tripped down a stair. I guess I'm glad I decided to stop taking Klonopin.