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Legendary Author Bret Easton Ellis Is Making His Directorial Debut · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Author Brett Easton Ellis
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Speaker 1: has had some of his best selling and culturally defining
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Speaker 1: books adapted into movies that have become instant classics, including
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Speaker 1: American Psycho, Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction, and
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Speaker 1: he's even penned screenplays. But for the first time in
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Speaker 1: his forty year career, Ellis will be directing his first film,
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Speaker 1: a horror movie called Relapse that he also wrote, starring
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Speaker 1: Stranger Things break Out Joseph Quinn, who plays Eddie Munson,
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Speaker 1: and while none of the movie adaptations, Brett is best
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Speaker 1: known for our true horror films, Brett tills Variety, it
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Speaker 1: feels like the right genre to launch his filmmaking career,
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Speaker 1: he says, I grew up watching the iconic horror movies
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Speaker 1: of the nineteen seventies. It seems appropriate that my first
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Speaker 1: feature would be a horror film. There is a simplicity
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Speaker 1: to Relapse. It seems like the perfect form for my
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Speaker 1: directing debut, something direct and impactful. Relapse, like all of
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Speaker 1: Brett Easton Ellis's most iconic stories, will be sexy, Lussian
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Speaker 1: paranoid while also being a monster movie, so it should
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Speaker 1: be a fun ride production is expected to begin soon.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.