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[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/luca-guadagnino-to-direct-new-%E2%80%98american-psycho%E2%80%99-movie-at-lionsgate-with-scott-z-burns-set-to-adapt.1013733/

Being adapted by a male screenwriter and a male director? This is going to be dire.

EDIT: All of what is good about the original American Psycho film is there because of the feminist lens that was used to adapt the book. The book is trashy, over the top, and way up its own ass. The author of the book is a dipshit. The film made the best chicken salad you've ever eaten out of chicken shit.

What's the "feminist lens" adapting American Psycho?

Does... does he think the original novel is pro-Bateman?

Identity politics are just so vapid and remove any agency from the artist themselves. 

It's also just like a really dumb card game where everyone tries to find a gotcha. Like one could also argue that the evil female director took the book of a gay man and erased him and that the new director, who is also gay, is actually the only correct choice.