American Psycho Christian Bale

At One Point, Oliver Stone Was Going to Direct

Oliver Stone American Psycho
Oliver Stone on the set of his 1986 film Platoon.

Stone was briefly attached to the film when Harron quit over DiCaprio’s casting. Bret Easton Ellis told MovieMaker: “I think I would have regretted it if Oliver Stone had made it with him. I don’t think Oliver Stone would have been the right director for this at all. Something about Mary’s style—the restraint she showed—is what makes the movie effective. I don’t think Oliver Stone is good at restraint. … And I don’t know if Leo, who is the greatest screen actor of his generation, would have survived it. And I know that Leo really, really wanted to do it and I know he was talked out of it.”

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