Informers Inspired Photos

Out.com has a small photoshoot inspired by The Informers up. Thanks to Joe for sending in the link.

Spanish Book Covers

Thanks to Alejandro for sending in these Spanish covers of Less Than Zero, The Informers, and American Psycho. Pretty bland stuff really.

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Hungarian Book Covers

Thanks to Peter for sending in these Hungarian covers of Ellis' books. Everything is here except Lunar Park. Hover over each book if you aren't sure of its American title.

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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.

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.

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Jarecki Confirms Informers Film!

The rumor of a Nicholas Jarecki directed adaptation of The Informers first surfaced in May of 2005, but it now appears to be on the verge of being realized. In an interview with CHUD.com, Jarecki talks about his film about James Toback [thanks to Frank for the tip] called Outsider and when asked about future planned projects he has this to say:

In the fall I'm going to direct a new film called The Informers, which I've written with Bret Easton Ellis, based on his best-selling book of the same name. We wrote this very crazy, multi-character, Short Cuts/Boogie Nights type movie that takes place in 1983 in Los Angeles and is about a rock star and a movie studio president and his wife and his mistress and a vampire and a kidnapper.

Jarecki also talks about the process he went thru to get Bret on board with this adaptation. This should be an interesting project to follow. Because The Informers is easily Bret's least recognized novel, I wonder how many casual Ellis fans will be drawn in to a story that they may have skipped previously.

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.

Italian Cover For The Informers

Thanks to Matt, here is the Italian cover for The Informers. This book was actually re-titled in Italy to Acqua Dal Sole which translates to Water from the Sun. I believe this book was also re-titled elsewhere in Europe to Zombies.

The Informers On Film?

Is Nicholas Jarecki going to bring 'The Informers' to film? Thats what Cinematical says after talking with Jarecki at the Tribeca Film Festival.

I had lunch this afternoon with Nicholas Jarecki, director of the Tribeca documentary The Outsider, which tracks James Toback through the making and release of When Will I Be Loved. Response to the film, Jarecki's first, has been strong, and with good reason: genius/madman Toback is relentlessly interesting, and the film provides a rather excellent investigation of the creative process. Jarecki's next project? An adaptation of The Informers, by Bret Easton Ellis.

Open Thread: The Informers

An open thread for discussion of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 17

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 16

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 15

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 14

European version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 13

2nd French version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 12

French version of The Informers.