How Patrick Bateman remade our cities

How Patrick Bateman remade our cities

In late February, Bret Easton Ellis confirmed on his podcast what Hollywood had been trying to bury for months. A string of A-list actors had read Scott Z. Burns’s new script for director Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of Ellis’s iconic 1991 novel, American Psycho — and declined to play Patrick Bateman. Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi were the names that leaked; according to Deadline, neither has said yes. Ellis offered a polite explanation — nobod…