{"id":102889,"date":"2025-10-28T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102889\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:14:10","slug":"dont-expect-to-see-margot-robbie-in-a-gender-swapped-american-psycho-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102889\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Expect to See Margot Robbie in a Gender-Swapped ‘American Psycho’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luca Guadagnino\u00a0(Bones and All, Suspiria) has been on board to direct a new interpretation of the 1991 book American Psycho\u00a0by\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis for a while now, with Austin Butler at one point rumored to be playing Patrick Bateman in Guadagnino\u2019s tale. More recently, a rumor hit the net that the film would be gender-swapped, with Margot Robbie<\/a> as Bateman.<\/p>\n

But Austin Butler definitely hasn\u2019t signed on the dotted line and a new report from Deadline<\/a> this week assures that the Margot Robbie rumors are at this point completely unfounded.<\/p>\n

Deadline reports this afternoon, \u201cWe\u2019re told by sources close to the project that Luca Guadagnino\u2018s American Psycho reinterpretation won\u2019t be gender-swapped.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outlet also notes, \u201cAustin Butler and Jacob Elordi have both been rumored online in that time, but nothing has been set so far and casting discussions continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Z. Burns is writing the screenplay for the Lionsgate movie from Guadagnino, which is said to be a new adaptation of Ellis\u2019s novel and not a remake of the 2000 film.<\/p>\n

In the story, \u201cA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale in the 2000 movie), hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to note that the 2002 direct-to-video movie American Psycho 2<\/a> actually did feature a female killer, with Mila Kunis playing a criminology student named Rachael Newman.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

Christian Bale in \u2018American Psycho\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino\u00a0(Bones and All, Suspiria) has been on board to direct a new interpretation of the 1991 book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28673,146,85,46,10926,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-102889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-american-psycho","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-margot-robbie","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}