Matt Smith, the actor best known for playing the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor on the wildly popular BBC series, Doctor Who, is ready to take on a bit more of a dark and disturbed character on the stage.
Smith is set to play Patrick Bateman in an upcoming musical adaptation of American Psycho coming to London’s West End. Christian Bale previously played Bateman in the 2000 cult classic movie directed by Mary Harron, which is adapted from the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.
Arguably the most memorable scene in the psychological thriller American Psycho was when star Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman character gives a co-worker (played by Jared Leto) a little lesson on the band Huey Lewis and the News…right before butchering him with an axe (maybe, we think). Gruesome I know.
Now, thanks to Funny or Die, a video has come along to blow minds. Layers of parody dancing gleefully together around a slice of paradoxical cinema. Does that make sense? Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to. Because it sounds awesome.
Because somewhere, this sounds like a good idea, I guess.
The Playlist is reporting that Lionsgate is set to get their hands on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, American Psycho, with the hopes of turning it into a film. This would be the second time the story has hit the big screen, and will be a remake of sorts for the beloved cult classic starring Christian Bale.
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