I'm a huge fan of the many books by Bret Easton Ellis. If you don't know his stuff, it's mostly fueled by drugs, sex, and spoiled people with serious social quirks. His novels have been adapted many times before, starting with Less Than Zero, then my beloved The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho. Yes, that American Psycho.
'Attraction' has long been a favorite of mine, mainly because the characters in it are so shallow and screwed up. It's a joy to watch, really, and features a number of actors in roles you wouldn't have expected to see them in. James Van Der Beek(back in his Dawson's Creek days) as an emotionless sexual deviant who doesn't know how to function sober? Awesome. That film was directed by Roger Avary, who hasn't directed a damn thing since. He's stayed pretty busy as a writer, though, and one of the things he's been working on is the script for an adaptation of Glamorama, another of Ellis' books. On his Twitter feed, Ellis revealed that Avary has finally finished the script, and that plans for him to direct are already underway...
"Just finished reading Roger Avary's adaptation of "Glamorama" which he will direct next year. Hilarious, horrific, sad. He's a mad genius."
The plot of Glamorama is another of Ellis' attempts to hack away at the celebrity culture. It basically features a bunch of clueless, vapid models who become terrorists. Seriously. The main character is Victor Ward, who was played by Kip Pardue in The Rules of Attraction. In that film he's so utterly shallow he can't even remember his girlfriend when he gets home from a European vacation.
That trip Victor goes on was chronicled in a film Avary shot with Pardue called Glitterati. There's no script, and is basically 70+ hours of Pardue going around banging chicks and acting like an a-hole. That's part of the reason it'll never see the light of day, although in terms of continuity it's the link between 'Attraction' and Glamorama, where he's now an A-list supermodel. Only a handful of Avary's closest friends have ever seen Glitterati. It's like my great white whale. I simply must see it some day. I must have it.
There are very few movies I get truly hyped over, but anything pairing up Ellis and Avary is gonna do it. I just hope it turns out better than the last Ellis adaptation, the dreadfully boring The Informers. If you want to see the awesome European segment of The Rules of Attraction, check it out below. "It's like a Polanski film"...
Victor - The Rules of Attraction by frenchydude00
