Please tell me this new movie "The Informers" has nothing to do with Bret Ellis' book

[Mike 03]

Some people considered it a collection; I thought it was a novel.

One of my fantasies for some time has been to purchase the rights for this book and take a stab at adapting it for the screen.

What THE FUCK does it have to do with vampires, other than in the allegorical sense???? Do we need another "American Psycho"? What he wrote back then was perfect. They don't need to contaminate it with this other shit.

I'm praying to god they don't ruin a great book. And if Ellis himself wrote the screenplay, he has some explaining to do.

All of his books (except for Lunar Park) are about bloodsuckers, but to tart Informers up like this is a disgrace.

At least it will be nice to see Winona Ryder on the screen again. But I'm sure Ellis has totally evaded taking responsibility for his depiction of what was really going on in Hollywood and the rock industry in the mid 80s.

Sad.

ON EDIT:

Does this sound like a vampire film to you?

From Publishers Weekly
This tedious successor to American Psycho , a patchwork of interrelated vignettes about a set of filthy rich L.A. families in the early 1980s, weds Ellis's over-the-top if one-dimensional satirical style to the sensational hedonism characteristic of Danielle Steel and the spiritual malaise of Douglas Coupland. Mobilizing his trademark first-person narrative voice, Ellis charts an amoral hyper-elitist social landscape from the interchangeable perspectives of debased Hollywood players, pseudo-celebrities and industry brats. There is Cheryl, an aging newscaster who shacks up with a narcissistic surfer and stops showing up for work; Bryan Metro, a vacuous American pop star who tours Japan leaving a wake of battered groupies and pharmaceutical bottles; Jamie, a vampire who lures teenagers home from trendy clubs and murders them in sadistic scenes reminiscent of American Psycho . Ellis's often racist characters crisscross an L.A. littered with the trendy iconography of the early 1980s (Wayfarer sunglasses, Duran Duran, designer drugs), their affectless, inarticulate sentences registering a jaded disdain for other people's lives. Ellis does not break new ground here but returns, perhaps nostalgically, to the cultural context of his celebrated first novel, Less Than Zero . Ultimately, this book is so inconsequential that it should neither vex Ellis's critics nor gratify his fans. 50,000 first printing; QPB alternate.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


http://www.amazon.com/Informers-Movie-Tie-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307473325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239321281&sr=1-1

Yes it's true, there is a thread about a vampire, but it is the weakest, phoniest part of the book.

What a waste of a great novel!

Oy...