Luca Guadagnino & Austin Butler’s ‘American Psycho’ remake is “fake news,” says Bret Easton Ellis

Image Credits: ‘American Psycho,’ Lionsgate (left) Austin Butler via Getty Images (right)

Apparently, that Luca Guadagnino-directed remake of American Psycho starring Austin Butler is “fake news”—at least that’s according to author Bret Easton Ellis, dashing our dreams for an even more homoerotic take on the iconic dark satire.

We’d ask for a fact-checker on this, but those are pretty hard to come by these days, it seems…

On a recent episode of his The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the famed writer behind the 1991 source novel said he doesn’t believe the movie is actually happening whatsoever:

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