New American Psycho Movie Won't Gender-Swap Serial Killer Protagonist or Star Margot Robbie

The caller American Psycho movie won’t gender-swap its serial slayer protagonist arsenic a caller study claimed.

In some American Psycho the publication and the 2000 movie, the slayer is Patrick Bateman, played successful the earlier movie adaptation by Christian Bale successful 1 of his champion films.

Citing “sources adjacent to the project”, Deadline changeable down The Sun’s study that Margot Robbie would prima successful manager Luca Guadagnino‘s arsenic the film’s titular murderer.

The Sun had claimed the “novel and the movie were truthful arguable and the radical moving connected the remake wanted to twist the communicative by having a pistillate histrion instrumentality connected the pb of Bateman. … and by having a pistillate killer, it puts a antithetic rotation connected the crimes.”

If you’re funny successful a female-led American Psycho past there’s ever American Psycho II: All American Girl, a direct-to-video sequel starring Mila Kunis arsenic a slayer inspired by Patrick Bateman. The movie made our database of the Top 10 movie sequels that should ne'er person existed.

This isn’t the archetypal projected gender-swapped movie that Margot Robbie has been linked with. The Barbie and Suicide Squad prima was antecedently up for a reboot of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

No authoritative connection yet connected who volition play Patrick Bateman successful the caller movie though past reports person claimed that Austin Butler is successful the mix.

Guadagnino‘s American Psycho won’t beryllium a remake of manager Mary Harron’s movie but alternatively a much faithful adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 novel.

Scott Z. Burns is scripting the caller film, which volition beryllium released by Lionsgate. It volition beryllium produced by Frenesy Films and enforcement produced by Sam Pressman.