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. When Bret Easton Ellis wrote The Rules of Attraction in 1987, it came burdened with heavy expectations, as his first novel, Less Than Zero , had made him a literary wunderkind two years prior. In a similar way, Roger Avary’s 2002 film adaptation of The Rules of Attraction came two years after the relative success of Mary Harron’s film version of American Psycho , and if ever Ellis were to become a book-to-film crossover franchise a la Stephen King or John Grisham, Rules would serve as a litmus test.
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Bret Easton Ellis on The Rules of Attraction and Its Sexy, Illicit Spinoff You’ll Never See
