'I Like Brave People' — Christian Bale Says Making a New American Psycho Is a 'Bold Choice'

Actor Christian Bale, who played the pb successful the 2000 American Psycho movie, was precocious asked what helium thought of the caller American Psycho movie coming from Luca Guadagnino. "Whoever wants to springiness it a shot, springiness it a pop," Bale told The Hollywood Reporter astatine the premiere of his latest movie The Bride successful New York City. "I loved making it with Mary Harron truthful galore years back. So galore fantastic memories of it all. Bold prime of anyone to… I don't cognize if they're doing a remake oregon what... I don't cognize thing astir it, but each the champion to 'em. I similar brave people."

Bale didn’t person immoderate peculiar picks erstwhile asked arsenic acold arsenic actors to play the iconic Patrick Bateman this clip around, but it’s large to spot him truthful unfastened to different portrayal that mightiness extremity up rather antithetic from his own.

That said, casting has seemingly been a large undertaking for the project. When it was archetypal announced successful 2024, Austin Butler was acceptable to prima arsenic Bateman — but a 2025 study claimed that The White Lotus prima Patrick Schwarzenegger was up for the role. But, arsenic of this writing, nary 1 has officially been attached to the portion conscionable yet. It doesn’t look to beryllium for a deficiency of trying, though.

"A mates of high-profile actors, whom I can't name, person turned it down," Bret Easton Ellis, writer of the 1991 caller connected which the movie was based, revealed past period connected his podcast. "I deliberation possibly due to the fact that they don't privation to beryllium successful the shoes of Christian Bale." To beryllium fair, that makes a batch of sense. Bale’s show is the worldly of legend, and it volition astir apt beryllium a spot hard to find an histrion acceptable and consenting to bash thing wholly antithetic with their Bateman — which appears to beryllium Guadagnino’s strategy here.

"From what I’m told, this movie is wholly antithetic from Mary Harron’s 2000 movie,” Ellis besides shared connected the pod. “It's a wholly antithetic take, and going to carnivore nary resemblance to that movie."

It’s surely the move, doing thing wholly antithetic with the root worldly versus rehashing the aforesaid aged thing. Plus, the publication and the movie bash person a lot of differences betwixt them, truthful there’s tons of accidental determination to play around. The lone different idiosyncratic officially attached to the task too Guadagnino is The Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns, who besides wrote Steven Soderbergh’s 2013 movie Side Effects, and it’ll beryllium absorbing to spot wherever helium goes with this reimagining of a perverted classic.

Before it became a movie that launched Christian Bale into stardom, American Psycho was a critically acclaimed, darkly comedic caller astir the poisonous powerfulness of the American Dream. And successful January, IGN exclusively debuted a caller preview of The Folio Society's American Psycho set, featuring caller looks astatine the container design, endpapers, frontispiece, and replica concern card.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.