Ellis' sequel gets a title...

Bret Easton Ellis is clear-cut, my favorite author of all time. The shit that he puts on paper is so outrageous and slightly unbelievable that it leaves me craving more. Anyway, he just put a title to his new book, which will be a sequel to Less Than Zero called Imperial Bedrooms. I am stoked for this book, but it doesn't hit bookshelves til 2010...

The Frog King

Holy Shit.

First of all The Frog King flick did not fall off the face of the Earth. Ellis did write a script based on the Adam Davies novel, now Darren Star is attached to directed with Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to star.

Very fucking cool.

Ellis adapts "Downers Grove"

Fucking Blogger. I swear to God, this error shit is getting absolutely ridiculous. I wrote up an entire thing here about Bret Easton Ellis and how he's going to write an adaption of Michael Hornburg's Downers Grove which is about:

Disquieting in its timeliness, Hornburg's (Bongwater) second novel is a tale of violence among high school cliques and a gritty portrait of adolescent pluck amid morbid chaos. Narrator Crystal Methedrine Swanson is on the verge of graduating from Downers Grove High in Illinois. Chrissie, as her friends call her, has a lot to deal with on the home front: her father has left without a trace, her brother is addicted to heroin and her mother is dating an increasingly sinister new beau. Chrissie and her boy-crazy, sexpot best friend, Tracy, also worry about "the curse" of their high school: each year before graduation, somebody in the senior class dies in a bizarre way. One year a math whiz killed several people in the parking lot before turning the shotgun on himself; other graduations were marred by suicide, drowning and several drunk-driving accidents. After Chrissie beats up a jock who tried to rape her at a party, she becomes terrified that she will be the next statistic. The jock and his buddies pursue an escalating plot of revenge beginning with a vicious car chase. They also set fire to Chrissie's school locker and strew dead dogs on her lawn. Adding to the plot twists of this teenybopper drama is Chrissie's obsession with a 26-year-old mechanic--cum-race-car driver named Bobby. Tough, insensitive and super-cool, Bobby is the kind of character only a teenage girl could love. Hornburg's prose is rife with adolescent jokes and lingo, some of it hilarious and sharp. At other times the humor wears thin, especially because Chrissie's youthful wisecracking does not segue smoothly into passages of soul-searching introspection. Yet Chrissie's relentlessly vernacular teenage voice takes up residence in the reader's mind, establishing her vulnerability and demonstrating the courage she shows on her stressful road to maturity.

I like the idea, what annoys me is that Ellis wrote a screenplay for Adam Davies' The Frog King that never saw the light of day. And that worries me.

Coolest Rumor since...Bale playing Robin.

Seriously, Bale auditioned for the role of Robin in Batman Forever but instead Chris O'Donnell got the role of the 'Boy Wonder' ...good thing too, because O'Donnell's career has careened into a shit heap. Anyway.

The Rumor is...

Quentin Tarantino is planning a remake of Less Than Zero the less than favorite movie adaptation of any Bret Easton Ellis' work. I remember the movie Less Than Zero with Robert Downey Jr. and Andrew McCarthy. It's not completely awful, but being that I'm such an enormous fan of Ellis' books...I must say it's not a proper representation. I think Tarantino would do it justice, and it'd be his first sit down and watch flick in a very long time. This is all according to Wikipedia.org.