Ellis Interview

The Morning News has an interview up with Bret by Robert Birnbaum. Robert has chatted with Bret a few times over the past couple of years, so his interview is quite different than most folks because he doesn't have to ask the obvious questions. [Thanks to Tim and Settemod for sending this in]

The only real future project nugget is Bret's response when asked about The Informers:

BEE: And that has a script and looks like it's going to go, yeah.

This would be the Nicholas Jarecki script mentioned last year, so hopefully its still progressing.

ROA Movie Gets Praise

The hallway split-screen scene in Avary's Rules of Attraction film with James Van Der Beek and Shannyn Sossamon was named the 26th Greatest Movie Moment every by Total Film magazine. Congrats Roger.

Rules Of Attraction Needs More Love

There's so little info out there on Ellis' new book right now, that we're reduced to chatting about the movie adaptations. Anyhow, The Rules of Attraction has made it onto CHUD's list of 100 Movies That Deserve More Love :

Roger Avary’s contribution to the success of Pulp Fiction will probably never be fully recognized, and so it’s to his credit that he’s not spent the following years trying to be another Quentin T. Instead he turned out Killing Zoe (another movie that could easily be on this list) and – after several years as a script doctor and producer – turned to the work of Bret Easton Ellis for this snarling, hallucinogenic swandive into the grubby moral quagmire of selfish, horny students at a liberal arts college. James Van Der Beek is the standout star, throwing off his Dawson niceness to portray Sean Bateman (brother of American Psycho Patrick) as a shark-eyed emotional monster, riding roughshod over the feelings of those around him and dicking anything that moves.

The Defense: The American Trainspotting is a stupid and crass simplification of this movies appeal, but – hey – it works. Savagely exciting stuff.

'Rules' has also just been released in theatres in Italy. The official Italian site is here.

Best of 2003: Rules Of Attraction

Manchester Online has named Rules of Attraction as one of the best films released in 2003. Here's what they had to say:

...bent the rules of film-making and found an authentic and strangely compelling way of telling its Bret Easton Ellis-derived story. It was, of course, too challenging to do much in the way of box-office business despite boasting one of the better advertising campaigns of the year.

Rules Of Attraction Film Interview w/ Ellis

This is a radio interview (in Real Audio format) from February of 2003. In it, he reveals that The Rules Of Attraction is his favorite film adaptation of his novels so far, and it sounds like he feels American Psycho was the worst. I'd agree with that.