{"id":256948,"date":"2025-10-28T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:47:07","slug":"american-psycho-reboot-wont-be-gender-swapped-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256948\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;American Psycho&#8217; Reboot Won&#8217;t Be Gender Swapped, Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: We\u2019re told by sources close to the project that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/luca-guadagnino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luca-guadagnino\" data-tag=\"luca-guadagnino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/american-psycho\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-psycho\" data-tag=\"american-psycho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Psycho<\/a> reinterpretation won\u2019t be gender-swapped. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOver the weekend, a report emerged out of the UK tabloids that the lead role of Patrick Bateman \u2014 played by Christian Bale in the original film \u2014 would be gender-swapped, with Margot Robbie in the frame for that role. Cue minor online frenzy. We\u2019re told that that\u2019s a non-starter, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInterest has been high in <a data-id=\"1236120177\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/american-psycho-movie-luca-guadagnino-1236120177\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guadagnino and Lionsgate\u2019s reimagining<\/a> ever since we revealed the package a year ago. Speculation has been rife over who will be cast in the film. Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi have both been rumored online in that time, but nothing has been set so far and casting discussions continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/chloe-sevigny-pitched-luca-guadagnino-reprise-american-psycho-role-1236384694\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236384694\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chlo\u00eb Sevigny revealed <\/a>over the summer that she pitched Guadagnino to reprise her role as Jean but added that the suggestion didn\u2019t gain much traction with the filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Mary Harron-helmed 2000 adaptation starred Bale as Bateman, Sevigny as Jean, and also included Reese Witherspoon, Justin Theroux, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis and Matt Ross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/scott-z-burns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Z. Burns<\/a>\u00a0is adaptating Bret Easton Ellis\u2019 classic novel. Lionsgate is the studio for producer Frenesy Films. Sam Pressman, son of Edward R. Pressman, producer of the original movie, is exec producer through his company Pressman Film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe novel by Ellis was a groundbreaking and controversial work when it was published in 1991. The graphic violence of its Manhattan investment banker-turned-serial killer led to it being censored in several countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the story, \u201cA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We\u2019re told by sources close to the project that Luca Guadagnino\u2018s American Psycho reinterpretation won\u2019t be gender-swapped.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[139133,236,88,28465,14070],"class_list":{"0":"post-256948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-american-psycho","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-luca-guadagnino","12":"tag-the-dish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}