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- 'American Psycho' Proving his range, Bale played a preppy 1980s serial killer in American Psycho (2000), based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis. Bale physically transformed himself for the role, developing a chiseled physique to reflect his character's obsession with his own appearance.
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- Leonardo DiCaprio Was Almost Patrick Bateman, And Gloria Steinem Is Rumored To Have Interfered. By 1997, Mary Harron was essentially all set to make American Psycho with Christian Bale as her chosen lead, but the production hit a roadblock because the studio balked at the idea of Bale not being famous enough for the part.
- Christian Bale Got Multiple Warnings That American Psycho Would Be Career Suicide. Christian Bale’s turn as Patrick Bateman is inarguably one of his best performances, and one of the most beloved by his fans – but what makes that kind of funny in retrospect is that he had multiple people telling him before signing on that the project would be “career suicide.”
- Christian Bale’s X-Factor That Earned Him The Role Of Patrick Bateman: His Dorkiness. After watching Christian Bale’s performance in American Psycho, it’s really impossible to imagine any other actor bringing the character to life in the same way, and Mary Harron believes that is an extension of the way in which Bale fully embraced the oft-ignored aspect of Patrick Bateman: the fact that he is a huge dork (something both evident in his utter lack of suaveness, and the way people talk about him).
- Perfectly Peeling The Face Mask At The Beginning Only Took A Single Take. Mary Harron describes the early scene where Patrick Bateman peels off his facial mask as being one that tells you everything you need to know about the character, and it’s a beautiful shot.
- It Took Eight Years to Make It to The Screen.
- David Cronenberg Was Attached to Direct It, too.
- Cronenberg’s Version Ended with A Musical Number Atop The World Trade Center.
- Bale Was Advised That Taking The Role Was Career Suicide.
- Leonardo DiCaprio Was Offered The Lead—Without Harron’s Knowledge.
- Gloria Steinem Was Not A Fan of The Book, Or Its Proposed Movie.
- DiCaprio Wrote Up His Own Wish List of Potential Directors.
- Bale Ignored The Fact That He Had Been Recast.
- Harron and Bale Were Given The Greenlight, But Could only Spend $10 Million.
- Bale Worked Out A Lot For The role.
In 1992, one year after its original publication, producer Edward Pressman bought the movie rights to Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. But it would take another eight years—and an ongoing series of writers, directors, and lead actors—to finally make it to the big screen. Originally, Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon was set to direct the adapta...
As American Psycho continued its journey from novel to feature, David Cronenberg became attached to direct it. When Cronenberg came aboard, he enlisted Ellis to write the script, with one caveat: He didn’t want to shoot anything in a restaurant or nightclub, which is where the bulk of the action in Ellis’ novel takes place. Cronenberg’s reasoning? ...
Among those “invented scenes” was an elaborate musical finale that took place atop the World Trade Center. “I think Barry Manilow's ‘Daybreak’ was playing, and there’s like Patrick Bateman sitting in the park talking to people, and then it ends on the top of the World Trade Center,” Ellis explained. “A big musical number, very elaborate. I'm glad i...
“When I offered [Bale] the part, he said he had all these messages on his answering machine telling him this was career suicide. And that just made him more excited,” Harron told The Guardianin 2000. “That's sort of how I reacted, too.” But the studio wanted a bigger name in the role (this was, of course, years before Bale donned a Batsuit). “They ...
At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Lionsgate executives announced that Leonardo DiCaprio—fresh off his Titanic success—would be playing the lead in American Psycho—which was news to both Harron and Bale. So Harron refused to meet with DiCaprio. “Leonardo wasn't remotely right [for the part],” Harron told The Guardian. “There's something very boyish ...
Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem was a vocal opponent of American Psycho—both the book and its proposed movie—for the violence it depicted against women. And it was long rumored that she tried to talk DiCaprio out of taking the role. Ironically, on September 3, 2000—less than five months after American Psycho’s release—Steinem married David Bale, ...
With Harron not budging on casting Bale and only Bale in the lead, the studio had to consider recasting Harron instead. DiCaprio reportedly submitted some of his own names to the short list of replacement directors, including (serendipitously) Martin Scorsese and Danny Boyle. Ultimately, the studio hired Oliver Stone, whom Harron described as “prob...
Despite DiCaprio and Stone being officially attached to the adaptation, Bale proceeded as if nothing had changed about his deal with Harron. “I just pretended it didn’t happen,” Bale told The Wall Street Journal in December. “I’m English, so I never go to a gym, but for that role it was part of the whole deal that I had to go. I still kept going do...
As part of the agreement in giving the project back to Harron, with Bale in the lead, they were given a strict budget of $10 million and had to agree to cast known faces in supporting roles (hence the casting of Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, and Chloë Sevigny).
In order to achieve Bateman’s near-perfect physique, Bale worked out with a trainer for three hours a day, six days per week. American Psycho would mark the beginning of Bale’s numerous body transformations; he lost 63 pounds to play an insomniac in 2004’s The Machinist, then immediately needed to gain the weight back—plus even more muscle—to begin...
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- Willem Dafoe shot each of his scenes three different ways. In order to create some mystery about how much Detective Kimball knew about Patrick Bateman, Dafoe acted out each of his scenes in three different ways.
- The movie was originally going to be in black and white and rated X. Ellis’ novel was getting the attention of Hollywood as far back as 1991, when it was slated to be directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator).
- Ellis didn’t care for Bale’s dancing. Just before Bateman puts an ax in Paul Allen’s head, he dances to along to “Hip to Be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News.
- Bateman becomes Batman. Guinevere Turner played the role of Elizabeth and wrote the screenplay for the film, ultimately beating three other scripts, including one written by Bret Easton Ellis.
Jun 27, 2023 · One of the most memorable aspects of American Psycho is Christian Bale’s incredible performance as the lead character, Patrick Bateman. His portrayal of the psychopathic investment banker is widely regarded as one of his best roles.
Apr 14, 2020 · Indeed, without Bale's sublime work on the film, his career path likely would've been markedly different - for starters, Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight saga would almost definitely have...
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Jan 30, 2024 · American Psycho was a breakthrough for Christian Bale, who turns 50 today. Here are 10 facts about the film.
American Psycho is a 2000 satirical horror film directed by Mary Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. Based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a New York City investment banker who apparently leads a double life as a serial killer.
