Benicio Del Toro to Play Bret Easton Ellis?
Filed under: Comedy, Horror, Casting, RumorMonger
Aside from a brief dalliance playing Macro in Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula, Benicio Del Toro has been laying on the serious work ever since his snatchy time as Franky Four Fingers. But it looks like he's finally lightening up the load again. While I wouldn't say that the Moe gig in The Three Stooges is the best way to go about it, there's another project cooking that could remind us of the glory days of Benicio and Johnny hallucinating their way through Vegas.
In a talk with MTV, Bret Easton Ellis said that the gestating Lunar Park adaptation is in some state of pre-production and: "Oddly enough, Benicio Del Toro I think is going to do it." Why oddly? "Benicio would actually be playing Bret Easton Ellis. It's a strange bit of casting." Indeed -- it's not every day that Del Toro gets to bite at an anglo role.
Lunar Park is a mix between fact and fiction, taking nibbles from Ellis' early fame (drug use, Glamorama book tours), and then morphing it into ghost story as he moves into a haunted house in a fictional New York City suburb. The AV Club called it a "quasi-plausible" "domestic horror-comedy." While the actor might be far from my first choice visually for Ellis, I can't help but love the thought of him getting into the writer's darkly comic world. You?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-28-2009 @ 4:45PM
sonia said...
All I want to do is look at Benicio...lol It doesn't matter what he's in, he always makes it better!
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4-28-2009 @ 5:29PM
Shiloh said...
Now there's a film that absolutely no one will go to see. Benicio needs better project selection.
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4-28-2009 @ 7:01PM
SunKing said...
I can't say it feels right to me to see him in this role.
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4-29-2009 @ 2:09AM
Val said...
Is this the book that stars the obsessive Keanu Reeves fan? I haven't read it but I've heard about it. I wonder if Keanu will cameo as himself. Now that would be seriously trippy and hilarious.
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4-29-2009 @ 11:09AM
NP said...
Lunar Park is a horrible book. It basically proved that Ellis's bag of literary tricks is quite small and limited. Why are they adapting it for the screen?? I guess Ellis is well connected so it's not exactly a huge shocker, but... blech, what a wretched book.
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5-13-2009 @ 1:40PM
jeffrey said...
Edward Norton would be the obvious choice.
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5-15-2009 @ 9:04AM
oliver said...
Yes.
Someone mentioned Robert Downey once and I personally loved that idea. But Ed Norton would be great.
I wonder if this film would work. I love Ellis but it's not his strongest work..and would need one hell of a director to pull it all together.