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Cooper Koch Wants to Star in Luca Guadagnino’s New ‘American Psycho’

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October 20, 2024

Cooper Koch Wants to Star in Luca Guadagnino's New 'American Psycho'

After breaking out in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Cooper Koch has his sights set on his subsequent function — and an iconic one at that.

On the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday evening, Koch advised The Hollywood Reporter, “Luca’s doing American Psycho, so I feel I can do Patrick Bateman,” when requested what he was trying to do for his Menendez follow-up.

It was reported on Friday that Luca Guadagnino is in last negotiations to helm a brand new movie adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis‘ 1991 novel American Psycho for Lionsgate. The primary movie, launched in 2000, starred Christian Bale as Bateman, an funding banker who seemingly leads a double life as a serial killer.

“I haven’t performed a serial killer but so I feel I might do it,” Koch added, noting that in the previous couple of weeks since his Netflix collection’ launch, he’s been getting a surge of performing prospects. “Issues are coming in, issues are shifting, issues are occurring, taking conferences, and the needle is threading so we’ll see, nothing is locked in or occurring but.”

Guadagnino’s most up-to-date movie is the Amazon function Challengers, which hit theaters within the spring and stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, which Koch additionally referred to as out as his favourite film of the 12 months, teasing, “I’m a giant homosexual tennis boy.”

Guadagnino’s subsequent film, Queer, stars Daniel Craig and is about for theatrical launch on Nov. 27 from A24; the filmmaker is at the moment in postproduction on After the Hunt, with leads Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield.

Scott Z. Burns is writing the script for the brand new American Psycho, which is produced by Frenesy Movies and is alleged to not be a remake of the primary adaptation however slightly a brand new tackle the novel. Sam Pressman of Pressman Movies — whose father, Edward R. Pressman, produced the 2000 film — is government producing the brand new model.