American Psycho — The Musical!
by lyndsie ~ September 14th, 2008. Filed under: Live On Stage, Production Post.
How many of you remember a little movie called American Psycho, starring everyone’s newest favorite Batman, Christian Bale? How many of you liked it? It was a cool horror flick – a psychotic little mind f*(#, to be sure. And now there is talk of turning it into a Broadway musical, as per Variety.
The original movie was actually based on a book by Bret Easton Ellis. It takes place in the 1980s and features your run of the mill Wall Street slickster – however, in this case the yuppie moonlights as a psycho serial killer. Fun times for everyone! Apparently, the slasher is getting turned into a musical because, according to people close to the project, it now seems to be relevant because of what’s taking place on Wall Street. Well! Okay, if you say so.
Of course, it would be nice if Christian Bale gets to take his version of Patrick Bateman to the stage. This guy’s talented, and Newsies showed us that he can sing and dance quite well. Plus, please, after this last Batman, he needs to show us all over again how deliciously sinister he can be when he plays someone psychotic.
