Luca Guadagnino is getting ready to explore a fresh take on Patrick Bateman. The filmmaker is in negotiations to helm a new film adaptation for Lionsgate of the 1991 novel America

Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations to direct a new 'American Psycho' movie. Scott Z. Burns will adapt the novel for the Lionsgate movie.

Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations for a new interpretation of the book "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis for Lionsgate.

Luca Guadagnino is in final talks to direct a new adaptation of “American Psycho” for Lionsgate, the company announced on Friday. Scott Z. Burns is writing the script adapting Bret Easton Ellis’ novel. Rather than a remake, the film will be a new adaptation of Ellis’s novel.

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations for a new interpretation of the Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho for Lionsgate.

A new reimagining of the disturbing serial killer classic American Psycho is on its way, coming from Challengers director Luca Guadagnino.

The script for American Psycho, adapted from the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name, is being written by Scott Z. Burns (Extrapolations). In a statement, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said,

Thanks to Luca Guadagnino, Patrick Bateman will be back. The auteur has announced that he is in final negotiations for a new interpretation of iconic novel "American Psycho," which was first brought to the screen in 2000.

The film will serve as a direct adaption of Bret Easton Ellis' novel as opposed to a remake of the 2000 film. American Psycho Film Lands Luca Guadagnino As Director

Variety reported that Guadagnino is in final negotiations to acquire the rights for a new interpretation of the Easton Ellis classic. But who will play the murderous finance metrosexual?