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'American Psycho' heads to Broadway

Published Wednesday, Sep 24 2008, 10:14 BST | By Simon Reynolds
'American Psycho' heads to Broadway

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American Psycho will be turned into a Broadway musical, Reuters reports.

Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel was adapted for the screen eight years ago by Mary Harron. The movie starred Christian Bale as Wall Street banker Patrick Bateman, a self-obsessed yuppie who commits murders and indulges in drug binges.

The Johnson-Roessler Company, The Collective and XYZ Films have teamed up to produce the stage version of the novel.

American Psycho is following a similar trajectory to another social satire Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk's novel became a film in 1999 and a musical version is in development with director David Fincher and Nine Inch Nails's Trent Reznor.

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