Bret Easton Ellis has written six books (his seventh, Imperial Bedrooms, comes out next month ), and all six have been optioned by Hollywood. Of those six, four were made into movies, and they run the gamut from iconic to underseen, acclaimed to lambasted. Each day this week, Ellis will tackle a different adaptation of his books for Movieline, giving his take on what worked, what didn’t, and what went on behind the scenes. Gregor Jordan’s The Informers begins with a quick, abrupt car accident, but to hear Bret Easton Ellis tell it, the production was something like a car crash in slow motion. Though it’s the only adaptation of Ellis’s novels where he actually served as a producer and co-writer on the film, he’s not happy with how it turned out, and he’s hardly alone. When The Informers was released last year, audiences stayed away and critics were scathing (pundit Devin Faraci, unwilling to review the film according to a normal ratings system, scored it a “F**k God out of 10”).
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Bret Easton Ellis on How The Informers Went Wrong
