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"American Psycho," "Dead Zone" Get Remakes - Dark Horizons

www.darkhorizons.com "American Psycho," "Dead Zone" Get Remakes - Dark Horizons

New adaptations of both Bret Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho” and Stephen King’s “The Dead Zone” novels are in the works according to The InSneider. Lionsgate is reportedly behind the new ‘Psycho’, which will follow on Mary Harron’s acclaimed 2000 film adaptation starring Christian Bale as 1980s whit...

Either were all old enough to remember the originals and so the news is annoying or Hollywood is really out of ideas.

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I think it's more the rejection of any sliver of risk by the studios that is killing originals.

American psycho is one of the films that need no remake no one i mean no one could reproduce the character prescence dafoe and bale had on it . Some things are just perfect leave em alone.

Porque no los dos

American Psycho was perfect the first time. Leave it alone.
A rare example of a movie being better than its book.
- American Psycho needs to be remade, if only because it'll shut up all the people who keep saying "You couldn't make something like that now!"

A new American Psycho could be fun I suppose. But I'd rather see them remake the not so good ones. The Canyons, woof. Or Rules of Attraction coulda been better.

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