There will be blood … Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. Photograph: Rex Features
US author delights Twitter followers with multi-tweet ideas session, finishing with tentative plans to start writing.
By Alison Flood
Bret Easton Ellis appears to be pondering a sequel to his most famous novel, American Psycho, in which his antihero Patrick Bateman might stalk Gavin Rossdale, murder David Beckham and slit Chris Martin’s throat.
The novelist told his quarter of a million Twitter followers on 10 March that it was 1am in Los Angeles, and that he was “sitting at my desk finishing a script and suddenly I’m making notes on where Patrick Bateman’s now”. Easton Ellis seemed uncertain about whether or not to go ahead with the sequel, but finished his Twitter session having produced at least 14 pages of notes mapping out the likes and dislikes of a 2012 version of Bateman, and with tentative plans to start writing.
“Maybe I’ll call my publishers on Monday … But have to figure out what the structure is … Definitely murders at prep school,” he wrote. “If this American Psycho sequel pans out I’d get in touch with my agent first but will have to spend the weekend seeing if it works.”
First published in 1991, and satirising the money-focused New York of the late 1980s, American Psycho is unreliably narrated by Bateman, a 26-year-old Wall Street operative obsessed with appearances and ruled by his appetites for food, clothes and sex. He sleeps with “hardbodies”, loves Les Misérables, discusses the “emotional honesty” of Phil Collins and devotes a chapter to analysing all of Whitney Houston’s albums. He also indiscriminately rapes, kills and eats (or does he?) his victims – “thirty, forty, a hundred murders” – but goes unnoticed.
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