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Frances
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Hi!
I was wondering if you read the controversial story behind the making of 'American Psycho'? Apparently Leo stole the lead part, which should have been performed by Christian Bale, and took control of the project...
If it interests you, you can find the story at:
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Hollywood/5295/cbnews.htm
or
http://www.christianbale.org/centre.htm
"Confirming the article the CBFC posted a few days ago, Mary Harron said in a Variety article yesterday that she has not quit AMERICAN PSYCHO as reported by studio Lions Gate. The Variety article notes correctly that Harron and Christian worked on the AMERICAN PSYCHO script and turned down other projects in anticipation of AP starting this August in NY and Toronto. Now, both Lions Gate and producer, Ed Pressman, are trying to get Mary Harron to meet with DiCaprio to see if they can work together. Apparently, DiCaprio has approval over the choice of the director and he was looking at Curtis Hanson (LA CONFIDENTIAL) or Gus Van Sant (GOODWILL HUNTING).
The Internet is swirling with new rumours as Leonardo DiCaprio's official web site put up a notice yesterday insisting that DiCaprio has neither signed nor accepted money for AMERICAN PSYCHO. There's also rumours on the newsgroups that DiCaprio is reconsidering because he didn't realize what happened to the project previously ND a number of feminist groups are launching petitions to ask him not to do the controversial film. Check out the articles from Leo's web site.Rumour also has it that every major movie magazine is delving deeper - rather than do an article just about DiCaprio's next picture, the press wants to know the history of the development of AMERICAN PSYCHO - and that would put a couple companies in a bad light!
THE AMERICAN PSYCHO STORY
Many of Christian's fans around the world have emailed the CBFC for information about what happened to the casting of AMERICAN PSYCHO. It was widely reported that Christian was going to play the lead in the film based on the book by Brett Easton Ellis. For the past 2 years, both director/screenwriter, Mary Harron, and even uthor, Brett Easton Ellis, wanted Christian to play Patrick Bateman.To help get the project off the ground, Christian introduced Single Cell Productions (Michael Stipe's company) to back AMERICAN PSYCHO since Christian and Stipe got along during the making of the upcoming VELVET GOLDMINE. And when Lions Gate picked up the upcoming METROLAND, Christian brought AP to them as well. In fact, the CBFC has already had meetings with Lions Gate to work on METROLAND and talk about AMERICAN PSYCHO!
What's happened in the past couple of weeks has been nothing short of extraordinary. Lions Gate offered the lead for $21 million to Leonardo DiCaprio leaving Christian and the director/screenwriter, Mary Harron, in the dark. Rumour has it that neither have been officially told that they are off the project yet. MTV News reported that Stipe's production company will drop out of AMERICAN PSYCHO if Harron and Bale are definitely out of the project. Stay tuned!
AMERICAN PSYCHO
You heard it here first. Leonardo DiCaprio has been cast as the lead in AMERICAN PSYCHO as Patrick Bateman.
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