{"id":502822,"date":"2026-03-04T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:08:07","slug":"christian-bale-weighs-in-on-bold-choice-to-make-new-american-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502822\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale Weighs in on &#8216;Bold Choice&#8217; to Make New American Psycho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/christian-bale\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christian-bale_1\" data-tag=\"christian-bale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Bale<\/a> is giving his first thoughts on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/american-psycho\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-psycho_1\" data-tag=\"american-psycho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Psycho<\/a> movie coming courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/luca-guadagnino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luca-guadagnino_1\" data-tag=\"luca-guadagnino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Guadagnino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn what may be his most famous performance, Bale starred as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 original film, and at the premiere of his movie The Bride! on Tuesday, Bale reacted to the news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/luca-guadagnino-american-psycho-lionsgate-1236035288\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhoever wants to give it a shot, give it a pop,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter when asked if he had any young actors in mind for his role. \u201cI loved making it with [director] Mary Harron so many years back, fantastic memories of it all. Bold choice of anyone to try to do a \u2014 I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re doing a remake or what, I don\u2019t know anything else about it. But all the best to \u2019em, I like brave people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA new Patrick Bateman has not yet been cast, but Guadagnino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/american-psycho-movie-luca-guadagnino-1236177949\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teased the upcoming movie<\/a> at CinemaCon last year. It is said not to be a remake of the Bale film, following an investment banker who lived a double life as a serial killer, but rather a new take on author\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis\u2018 1991 novel\u00a0of the same name. Scott Z. Burns is writing the script. \u201cWe are really working hard to bring to the screen a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis\u2019\u00a0American Psycho, a book that I deeply love that is something that influenced me so much,\u201d Guadagnino said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSeveral members of the original American Psycho team have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/american-psycho-luca-guadagnino-new-movie-1236193526\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reacted<\/a> to the new adaptation news, with co-star Matt Rott noting, \u201cIt feels like a business venture more than anything else, but being that it\u2019s based on a book, there can be multiple interpretations, so why not? I think they have their work cut out for them, for no other reason than Christian\u2019s performance is exceptional.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProducer Chris Hanley added, \u201cEverybody\u2019s calling me, going like, \u2018How stupid to make [American Psycho].\u2019 I\u2019m not like that. Luca is a great director. He\u2019s never made a bad movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Bale is giving his first thoughts on the new American Psycho movie coming courtesy of Luca Guadagnino.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[139133,64534,88,2250,28465,105292],"class_list":{"0":"post-502822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-american-psycho","9":"tag-christian-bale","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-luca-guadagnino","13":"tag-the-bride"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502822","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=502822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}