Austin Butler to Play Christian Bale’s ‘American Psycho’ Function in New Adaptation

Austin Butler has discovered his subsequent bloody function. 

The Dune: Half Two star, 33, will probably be taking over the American Psycho half made well-known by Christian Bale, in line with Selection.

The upcoming Luca Guadagnino-directed movie won’t be a remake of the violent 2000 film starring Bale, however a brand new adaptation of writer and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 contoversial novel. 

The brand new movie is ready to be launched by Lionsgate. 

Bale’s model is ready in New York Metropolis in 1987 and sees the actor tackle the function of Patrick Bateman — a captivating Wall Road skilled by day, and a raging serial killer by night time.

Talking to PEOPLE in 2019 along with his Ford v Ferrari costar Matt Damon about their household’s favourite movies of theirs, Bale admitted that his function within the comedic horror left his spouse’s grandmother confused. 

“Once I first bought married [to wife Sibi Bale], her grandma stated, ‘So he’s an actor?’ ‘Yeah,’ she says. ‘Has he finished something? ‘Yeah, he did a movie, it’s known as American Psycho,’” he recalled. “So Sibi’s mother took her a duplicate of American Psycho.”

“Sibi’s mother hadn’t realized fairly what number of inappropriate moments there could be,” he continued, saying the household sped previous these elements. “After which [Sibi’s mom] realized that nearly the whole movie is inappropriate. They bought by it in quarter-hour.”

For the twentieth anniversary of American Psycho in 2020, director Mary Harron, together with Ellis, Bale and others from the movie, gave an oral historical past printed by MovieMaker.

In the course of the dialog, Harron admitted Bale’s function nearly went to a different huge identify.

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“Clearly, I believe [Leonardo] DiCaprio’s an awesome actor, however I assumed he was flawed for it,” the director, 71, stated. “I assumed Christian was higher for it, and I additionally thought, and I believe my intuition was proper on this, [DiCaprio] carried monumental baggage as a result of he had simply come off Titanic and I assumed you can’t take somebody who has a worldwide fanbase of 15-year-old women, 14-year-old women and solid him as Patrick Bateman,” she continued of the fictional serial killer.