For all of those who wondered what happened after Patrick Bateman laughed off his final confession in the final pages of Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel American Psycho (or in the superior Christian Bale starring film adaptation from 2000), worry no more!
FX has announced that it will be adapting a SEQUEL to the original film/book as a television series, which will episodically continue the adventures of Patrick Bateman, the most bored but fascinating trader on Wall Street.
The project, to be written and spearheaded by Stefan Jaworski (Those Who Kill), will time jump in the narrative from the original’s glossy 1980s cityscape hell to the present day when Patrick Bateman is in his 50s and taking on a protégé to carry on his good, bloody work.
Reads the promo:
In the new drama series, iconic serial killer Patrick Bateman, now in his mid-50’s but as outrageous and lethal as ever, takes on a protégé in a sadistic social experiment who will become every bit his equal — a next generation American Psycho.
Now, you may be saying “but Bateman wasn’t really a serial killer in the original story, right?” Perhaps. But in a television landscape littered with them—Dexter, Hannibal, The Following, Bates Motel and FX’s own American Horror Story: Asylum—you can see why things may have changed for this new incarnation.
For those who missed out on the original cult classic, enjoy one of the hippest (and NSFW) scenes ever committed to celluloid:
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