Austin Butler IS Patrick Bateman

I knew Nicholas wasn’t getting this role. He is not high profile enough. These stars in these hit streaming series swear they are movie stars. No bitch, you gotta build that resume a little bit more. Also I would pound Austin to ecstasy.

He has rectum mouth.

I knew Nicholas wouldn’t because he’s not on Hollywoods radar as far as acting. He’s their new model to pimp out for clicks.

TERRRRRRRIBLE career move for Butler. I’m actually shocked his management went for it.

Just no

R4 why would it be terrible?

Sorry but I had to laugh. With how aggressive Nicholas has been campaigning to get cast, I know this is a blow.

This has been a bad week for him so far. No GG nom while his co-lead got nominated, the hot Italian criminal has completely taken over social media and has even double the amount of love online in just a short amount of days, now this? Someone needs to do a wellness check on him.

Why remake this when the original was pitch perfect?

On the one hand, there will be nudity and sex scenes. On the other, this is just an awful casting choice. He does not have the looks or acting talent required for the role.

Awful pick. Should've gone to Cooper Koch.

r8 It's dated visually by now, despite the brilliant script. You need something new to attract the younger audiences.

R3: Good looking actors do not stand a chance in today's woke Hollywood. They like these non-threatening white guys and it's a trend that's not going away anytime soon.

R9 Chavez doesn’t either. He looks literally nothing like the character in the book. His complexion can be white as snow but his face is still not Bateman.

…although if it is a roman à clef about Armie Hammer then I could see why Guadagnino went this direction, because there is a bit of a resemblance. Both dirty blondes with big cold blue eyes.

Butler would at least attempt Hammer’s pseudo-transatlantic accent.

He has not got the range!!

[quote] I knew Nicholas wasn’t getting this role

They needed another white guy to properly portray the character as written.

Guadagnino said this version will focus more on Patrick’s sexual proclivities and focus less on his thirst for murder.

Unless they really emphasize the sex scenes/sexual content in the marketing, I think this will be a flop.

R16 correct. Chavez is “white” but not Anglo. They aren’t the same.

Anyone who believed Nicholas had a shot is insane. He isn’t on any big directors radar.

Could there be an Austin Butler full frontal?

R18 the 2000 film flopped but gained popularity later. It happens.

Austin Butler IS NOT Patrick Bateman.

Not even close.

Sorry, Luca.

And sorry, Austin. I guess you had to have sex with Luca for nothing.

No one is going to buy him as Patrick Bateman.

R22: The sex is not for nothing. It pays off.

R22 Chavez isn’t Bateman. You keep pushing him but he’s no more Bateman than Butler is.

R6 because it will never measure up to Bale’s performance. Bale is an actor’s actor and Butler is a Disney star who got lucky.

R17 so it IS about Armie Hammer.

Got lucky? He was incredible as Elvis and in Dune 2.

Austin Butler looks like he's on the verge of tears at all times. He does not possess the maniacal glee that Bale brought to the role originally. I'm actually disgusted by this casting choice. Even Timotay would be more convincing as Bateman.

I think Austin is a good (potentially great) actor, but that role is indelibly Bale’s. Memes are all over the place with Bale. It will be very hard for Butler to have that impact even with his talent.

Butler has a white trash look about him. Patrick Bateman is supposed to look very classically handsome. Christian Bale was perfect.

Austin Butler in a remake of Napoleon Dynamite, this I could buy. But as Patrick Bateman? It's like if you tried to cast Garrett Clayton as Rambo - completely daft and unbelievable.

His team is probably strategizing on a conference call right now. Fans of the original film are devastated. I do t think anybody is happy with this pick.

Retard R10 thinks Koch should get all the acting roles.

R32: Don't

[quote] I dont think anybody is happy with this pick.

I thought you wrote "I don't think anybody is happy with this PRICK."

Hehe.

Either would be correct.

So he'll be playing Patrick Bateman as Elvis?

Butler will get away with it if he is indeed playing an Armie Hammer surrogate. Hammer was, well, hammy. But he cannot play Patrick Bateman at any level close to Bale.

That’s what they all told Bale when he was chasing the role in the late 90s r4.

[quote]the 2000 film flopped but gained popularity later. It happens.

The 2000 version flopped commercially but it was anchored by an iconic performance from Christian Bale that put him firmly on the map in the acting world. He was chosen as Batman only a couple of years later, partly on the recognition of his work in AP.

It will be very difficult for anyone to top that performance.

Bateman AND Batman!

Hot

I'd like to see Aaron Taylor Johnson in the role with LOTS of nude scenes.

Hollywood seems to have forgotten what a New England WASP is.

Yes r38 because it was a highly risky film and move for him, as a younger actor with only modest name recognition. Thankfully he hit it out of the park and it put him on the A-list, at least among his peers (if not Hollywood proper).

Asking a new actor to re-imagine the role and try to top that, especially a younger established actor like Butler, is strange.

[quote] So he'll be playing Patrick Bateman as Elvis?

R36 NAILED IT!

He probably still hasn't lost that stupid accent.

The guy is fuckin' weird.

Hunter Biden would've been more believable.

It’s not such a great story that it needs a remake.

Another remake nobody asked for and I'm sure some woke rubbish will be thrown in for good measure.

r8 clap🫡

Woke rubbish… like having Patrick do anything gay…

Will it still take place in the late 80s? Will Patrick Bateman be bisexual?

So will this version have Patrick putting a decapitated head on his hard dick? I joke, but that's one of several moments from the book I doubt make it to this adaptation despite it being more explicit.

Bateman wasn’t bi in the book r51

This remake craze is boring and sign the death of any creativity. That said, while Bale is indeed iconic as Bateman, the movie itself deviates wildly from the book, mostly in its tone.

I don’t think i have seen anything with Butler, but Elordi was sort of playing Patrick Bateman in Euphoria, so this will be a new take.

[quote]Butler has a white trash look about him. Patrick Bateman is supposed to look very classically handsome.

I think he can be styled convincingly enough to pull off the look. Whether he has the acting chops for it, I don't know. It's a risky move for him.

I thought we were finally rid of Austin Butthead after that stupid Elvis movie.

Who keeps trying to make him happen?

It's really fucking annoying.

The studio wanted DiCaprio for the original. Can you imagine?

I would argue that Bateman neither straight nor gay nor bi. He's a total freak who is trying his best to imitate the humans around him. It doesn't really matter if the remake has him killing female or male prostitutes.

And I agree with r47. The movie elevated a mediocre book. This is like remaking Silence of the Lambs.

R58 no. The person said he doesn’t want it woke. Making him Bi or gay is WOKE. Patrick was neither. He actually loathed gay men. The only thing that suggested he was anything but straight was the one time he rents a tranny porn video.

I’ve read the book 3 times.

I don’t know Butler may surprise us if the script and direction are good. He’s a raw talent he just wasn’t good as Elvis he WAS Elvis. Somehow I can see him in a dark psychotic role we shall see.

The original was excellent but understandably left out some of the more gruesome shit.

What are the chances of Austin showing peen?

DiCaprio turned down the role he thought it was to dark and twisted , which it was and would have ruined his career. I think he would’ve nailed it.

The 2000 film was nothing like the book

Nobody wants this movie. Especially not with that goofy looking hick as Patrick.

DiCaprio would have been awful

Austin isn’t a hick….

Anyone named Austin is a hick.

But he isn’t a hick.

He's not a box-office draw.

Who cares about Patrick Bateman?

Luigi is who we want.

R69 he wasn’t cast for that. He was cast because he fits Luca’s vision

He had white trash face

*has white trash face

Christian was such perfect casting. He looked like that 1980s dark haired Wall Street douche bag.

Austin looks nothing like that. They would have to reinterpret him as a sweater over the shoulders tennis playing yuppie for it to work.

Why the remake, Christian Bale played the character to perfection.

[quote] Luca’s vision

his movies are so aggressively milquetoast, but everyone claims they're just the spiciest things on earth.

how caucasian.

R75 it’s not a remake

This is going to be such a failure, I'm almost looking forward to it.

[quote] thought we were finally rid of Austin Butthead after that stupid Elvis movie.

The one that got him an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe and Bafta?

The “It’s not a remake; it’s a new interpretation of the novel” seems like a pretty weak distinction to me.

Other than Gus Van Sant, people don’t generally remake the same movie.

R80 a remake a direct redo of another film. This isn’t that.

Casted.

Setting aside the fact that remaking this movie now is ridiculous, Butler's Dune and Elvis performances likely landed him the role.

I don't see it, but it's not utterly ludicrous, merely bad casting.

It isn’t bad casting and he will do amazing.

It isn’t a remake.

Prosthetic peen at best, I'm betting. The scourge of wankers everywhere

Probably no peen from him.

It's not a remake, it's a retread.

No. It’s a direct adaptation of the book. Has nothing to do with the 2000 film which was nothing like the book

Butler grew up in show biz. NOT A HICK.

Butler said cast probably because he was the only one who could bring some financing to this thing.

*Butler was cast….

R90 So did Britney Spears

Remake. Retread. Reinvention.

Whatever you call it, I can't imagine Luca successfully doing a 2.0 version of previously made film.

Austin is prettier than Bale, but I admire Christian for showing his knob in the original, even if it was for a nanosecond

Stop attempting to narrow the definition of “remake” to the point where it applies only to Gus Van Sant’s “Psycho.”

It’s a remake.

R59, anyone who gets off on fucking the bloody, ragged neck hole of a decapitated head is not straight. He's a complete deviant and any attempt to slot him into a normal sexual orientation is completely missing the point of the book. I read it once and that was enough.

He was homophobic and racist because he wanted to fit in with his peers. I don't think he has any beliefs.

R96 you don’t know what a remake is. It’s obvious. Just admit it and move on.

[Quote]The studio wanted DiCaprio for the original. Can you imagine?

Yes, I can. He would have been ideal.

When the book was first out BEE cane to London to do a reading and interview on stage at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. I went and was sat behind a row of beefy, Bateman-esque financial trader types, American, with expensive watches and knitwear. When BEE did the reading they treated it like stand up comedy. They laughed loudly at all the violence, hatred, and all the bits that were meant to be satirising people like THEM. It was very disturbing. They clearly loved the book - unironically.

Leo was too pretty to play such an anonymous and empty vessel as Patrick.

He also looks nothing like the character from the book

WTF we have the SAME AGENT and I give BETTER HEAD!

Austin Butler looks like a hick, physically he's all wrong for Patrick Bateman.

Cillian Murphy would be good.

Maybe to play Patrick Dennis.

[quote] R96] you don’t know what a remake is. It’s obvious. Just admit it and move on.

Why don’t you tell me. What is a remake?

I see Autism's press people are all over this thread!

Leaving their stinking slug trail, saying "he's not a hick!" and "he's perfect for the part!" and "it's not a remake!"

Have a seat, cunts.

Austin Butthead is WRONG for this part, the movie should NOT be remade, and Luca Magnotta is a fucking HACK!

Take your stupid shilling somewhere else, Hollywood CUNTS!

[quote] Autism's press people

Temple Grandin is the chief autism press person.

Yeah, the Luca hive is very sensitive. He can do no wrong.

The weird thing is that if Nicholas Chavez could have pulled this off (which he could in terms of looks even though he's Hispanic), he would be a genuine superstar.

I don't think Butler is going to be adequate casting. But I think this will flop, because no one is craving a re-make. The original novel is so thin that filming it once (well) was more than enough.

[quote] Cillian Murphy would be good.

He can play Patrick's hot grandfather.

[quote] which he could in terms of looks even though he's Hispanic

He couldn’t.

[quote] The weird thing is that if Nicholas Chavez could have pulled this off (which he could in terms of looks even though he's Hispanic), he would be a genuine superstar.

Trust me. Nicholas could pull this off, both in terms of looks AND attitude.

He already has the Patrick Bateman vibe, without even trying.

If he just puts in the work for the role, he would be phenomenal.

Nicholas was already getting rave reviews for playing Lyle Menendez.

He's such a serious and committed actor, I just know that he would NAIL the part of Patrick Bateman.

But Luca dumbshit is set on Butthead, so whatever.

[quote] which he could in terms of looks even though he's Hispanic

[quote] He couldn’t.

Fuck off, R113.

It has nothing to do with his being Hispanic.

It's the look, the attitude, and the overall VIBE.

Nicholas has IT.

Butler will be fine in the role but I don’t understand why this is being rebooted. The Mary Harron version is a classic and they won’t be able to do it better.

I didn't see Elvis but this guy is handsome enough for the role and he was good in Dune 2

Butler is exciting onscreen. He has obvious movie star appeal. I only know of Chavez and Koch from DL.

[quote] Another remake nobody asked for and I'm sure some woke rubbish will be thrown in for good measure.

Sex with transwomen?

WHY does it have to be a white man? Didn't anybody hold space for Cynthia Erivo??

Nicholas Alexander Chavez is hotter (and YOUNGER) than Christian Bale and Austin Butler, combined.

[quote]I didn't see Elvis but this guy is handsome enough for the role and he was good in Dune 2

He has a common white trash look about him that's totally inappropriate for Patrick Bateman.

[quote] and YOUNGER) than Christian Bale and Austin Butler, combined.

That’s mathematically impossible.

Why?????????????????????????????

I love the Christian Bale version. Dammit.

Oh yeah common white trash have faces as pretty as that.

R58 He is basically the dad on Europhia.

r125 he looks like a redneck. Patrick Bateman is a classically handsome upper class Anglo-Saxon type.

[quote] [R125] he looks like a redneck. Patrick Bateman is a classically handsome upper class Anglo-Saxon type.

??? Who would that be if not Butler.

Austin doesn’t look like white trash but I just can’t picture the character anything other than a dark brooding white boy like Bale. Even though Bale is not dark, maybe it’s the hair.

Butler is white trash looking, he's not a classic WASP beauty. JFC some of you have no idea.

^^^Bitch, who is a "classic WASP beauty"??!!! Butler certainly fits the bill for me.

r131 he has a redneck look. You have no idea what you're talking about.

I’m guessing r132 comes from that background so he knows them intimately. And that’s no diss. If you don’t look like Kid Rock or Glen Powell that’s what I think of when I think of white trash. Even though Powell may not even be that and Kid Rock grew up privileged. It’s a slur so I apologize for any disrespect.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez IS Patrick Bateman.

I hope someone casts him in an American Psycho remake, before this version with Austin Butler comes out.

Beat them to the punch, Nicholas!

The project is pointless, has no cultural currency, and Butler is badly cast.

Unless he’s doing this. Then in becomes interesting.

But who is Huey Lewis, in 2024?

?

Butler is from a French name and dates to 1066 with the Norman conquest of Britain. It spread around the British isles. And Austin has Norwegian heritage as well. His long face reminds me of Swedish men. I don't know many Norwegian men.

At least we will finally get to see his ass.

He doesn’t have one.

Personally I actually think Glen Powell would have been a good Patrick Bateman. Maybe Christian Bale will do a cameo as the homeless guy Patrick murders.

He could never get a Friday reservation at Dorsia.

[quote]Personally I actually think Glen Powell would have been a good Patrick Bateman.

Glen Powell looks inbred.

[quote] Butler is exciting onscreen. He has obvious movie star appeal. I only know of Chavez and Koch from DL.

Agree with r118 here.

Seriously, I'm indifferent to Timothee Chalamet, neither dislike or like him, but when he shares the screen with Butler in Dune II it's no contest, Butler has far more charisma.

And his performance as Elvis was very compelling.

I'll leave it up to you experts on Bateman whether he was miscast here or not.

OK, fine, R142, but they could at least let Glen Powell be one of Patrick's victims. He'd be perfect. He loves to talk and brags a lot.

Who is asking for this movie? The original was bad enough.

Nicholas Hoult would have been great.

Has Austin ever done any nudity?

Tall built and handsome Nicholas Hoult would have been a great choice.

Another remake nobody asked for. Nobody.

I agree that while I don’t find Austin Butler that good looking, he was wonderful as Elvis and sexy, scary and charismatic in Dune 2. I didn’t know it was him in Dune 2 while watching and then I immediately looked it up because his talent stood out.

I love the idea of Nicholas Hoult. Great idea.

R143: Butler honestly has the better chance in the future at getting mature leading man roles than Chalamet.

Nicholas Hoult isn't very good and I only see the little kid with a bowl cut from About a Boy. Great movie.

Who on DL finds him attractive?

Only LOGAN PAUL can play this role in a meaningful way

and only the safdies can direct it

Austin definitely has major BDE.

Austin is the best actor out of the bunch. I'll admit I have a soft spot for him. He's not a nepo baby and had to scrap his way up the Hollywood ladder, which makes his unapologetic desire for glory quite endearing to me.

He’s too odd looking.

He's too beautiful to play Patrick

I’m reading the novel and it isn’t different from the film other than being more graphic, gruesome and disgusting. I’m not sure why a redo is necessary and some of the shit in the book does not need to be on film.

I don't know why they even have to remake it. IMO Christian Bale was brilliant and completely embodied the character. Even more important is that the story was of its time. The whole Wall Street thing, the comparing of the gold embossed business cards, the insistence on getting reservations at hard to get restaurants, the whole thing was a fable for the times. It put a mirror up to our society and our culture at a time that was both shocking and prescient. To do it now is an after the fact move.

I think I read it when I was a teen and getting turned on by Patrick talking about his cock and explicit sex. I hope Austin is explicit

R111 Chavez isn’t on any respected Hollywood directors list. He wasn’t in contention. The role was down between Jacob Elordi, Drew Starkey and Austin Butler. Luca almost went with Elordi but decided Butler fit his version of Bateman best.

The Chavez stans are so out of touch they think that them repeating his name all over the internet means he was in contention. He wasn’t. Luca probably doesn’t even know he exists.

R161 the book is very different actually

Jacob would have made a gorgeous Patrick. Not that average Chavez, who didn't even show his pinga in the Menendez show.

Again, Chavez was never up for the role.

The book is dated but who knows if they will set it in the 80’s or today.

R165 I am 150+ pages in, and it is the same. There is still a lot left to read, so I’ll take your word for it. If I can make it through…

R169 you aren’t reading if you aren’t seeing the difference by now

R168 it’s not dated. It’s a period piece now

Drew Starkey/Harris Dickinson would’ve been a better choice.

You’re saying that Austin Butler doesn’t look the part but seeing Harris Dickinson does? That’s massive miscasting.

[quote] You’re saying that Austin Butler doesn’t look the part but seeing Harris Dickinson does?

No I’m not. I’m saying Drew Starkey/Harris Dickinson would’ve been a better choice.

Will Austin Butler be doing the weird role immersion method acting he did for Elvis for this? Should the homeless and random cats near ATMs be concerned?

Butler seems as good a choice as any. Here’s hoping those beautiful dick-sucking lips of his are used to full effect.

R170 agree to disagree. I finished the novel and it is not that different. Both are ambiguous.

According to BEE, this is all fake news.

Let’s hope so,R178. The book made Patrick Bateman sound like he looked like a young Matt Bomer

Fuck you r179! I can still pass for 29 GODDAMMIT! I've had more work done than the Eiffel Tower and I'm still as hot as guys in their 20s! I am! I really am!

People just associate Butler with rednecks because he played Elvis.

Not “just”, R181.

Austin Butler looks like he had rickets when he was a kid.

I think he's very cute.

(Though I don't really understand the fairly trend for long-necked male celebs.)

Austin butler is ok looking imo. Not ugly or gorgeous. I think the issue is that he’s a bit of a mouth breather and looks dumb. It’s hard to envision him as a classy but very superficial wealthy businessman,

For fucks' sake.

Bret Easton Ellis, whatever you think of him, has been generally done well by Hollywood. Rules of Attraction is one of the best campus black comedies ever made, Less Than Zero is a triumph of style over substance (which was the book's message) and even The Informers is better than I think people gave it credit for. But American Psycho is the best of the bunch. It looks great, has a perfect soundtrack and there's simply not an off-note or bad performance in the whole thing, even from actors whom I otherwise don't care for.

There is no reason for a remake (that's not actually a remake, because it's just the same story, but., like, different).

Based on what this director did to Suspiria - and Tilda Swinton was amazing - his American Psycho will just be a bloody slog of ugliness stripped of the book's social satire and the earlier film's comedy and irony.

Austin is a beautiful man

Agreed, R188.