Bret Easton Ellis wrote Less Than Zero, Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho, and for that he’ll always have my respect (I also enjoyed Lunar Park, though Glamorama was absolute drivel). But there’s no denying that the guy is 
Meanwhile, he’s been closely following the development of a Fifty Shades of Grey movie adaptation, which seems odd for a guy with arguable literary relevance, to be interested in Twilight fan-fic originally published under the name Snowqueen’s IceDragon (this is true, by the way, not something I’m making up). Bringing us to yesterday, when Kelly Marcel was officially hired to write the Fifty Shades of Grey movie adaptation. BEE… did not seem pleased:
Kelly Marcel?!? KELLY MARCEL?!? Kelly Marcel is WRITING the script for “Fifty Shades of Grey”?!? THIS is the movie they want to make? ARGH.
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) October 9, 2012
All I really know about Fifty Shades is that the idea that anyone would be interested in Twilight fan-fic scares the sh*t out of me, let alone it taking up the top four spots on the best-seller list. Ellis tweets apparently sparked a mini-feud with the Fifty Shades producer, but my only real dog in this fight is its potential to produce more entertaining Bret Easton Ellis Twitter battles. So far so good.
After the jump, a few favorites.
And “Breaking Bad” is the most overrated TV series in the history of television. Even though I want to bang the kid with cerebral palsy.
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) July 31, 2012
Am I completely in the minority having just walked out of Rian Johnson’s “Looper” or did people actually like this movie?
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) October 1, 2012
I honestly thought that when I first watched it that The Big Bang Theory was about four gay dudes who work at Caltech and a butch waitress.
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) August 16, 2012
What I can’t believe watching “The Newsroom” is that Aaron Sorkin and I went to the same shrink.
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) July 2, 2012
“Why don’t you have anything positive to say?” whines a member of Generation Wuss while petting her cat and listening to Fiona Apple.
— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) October 1, 2012
Bret Easton Ellis’s Twitter account is far and away the best thing happening in pop culture right now.
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With that “Breaking Bad” comment, this guy is about one sacred cow away from becoming the rich man’s Armond White.
I kinda wish I had never started following him on Twitter. Some of his books are great but his obsession with Fifty Shades of Grey is just sad on two levels:
1: He genuinely likes it.
2: He is obviously begging for a writing job.
He was up to be the screenwriter for a while, which was why he was tweeting so much, but it was indeed scary that he actually seemed to like the book. It was annoying as hell to see 20 tweets in a row about that stupid book.
20 seems like a low estimate. You could scroll down his timeline like three or four times and see nothing but 50 Shades of Gray tweets.
Yeah, you’re right. It was pretty bad. The whole Matt Bomer thing was insufferable. WE GET IT – you don’t think he should get the role.
He didn’t like Looper?! BURN THE WITCH!!!
The sausages are actually spelled like the actor. James Deen is spelled like the Silver Haired, Butter Pushing, Diabetes Provider Paula.
Makes sense, both work with a lot of white cream.
Armond white trolls as an art form. Ellis trolls as masturbation foreplay.
Oh, his Twitter is glorious. When he goes off on a tangent, it is simply magic to wake up to and read.
To say Glamorama is drivel is laughable.
I do NOT get the big deal about BEE. He’s basically a nihilist Michael Chabon with poor sentence structure. How he can still be relevant in the literary world blows my mind. He’s not in college anymore.
I’m just going to say Fuck That Guy, take the slack, then when he does something else stupid in a month say “See?”
OK, but American Psycho (book and movie) is The Tits.
How much credit should adapted screenplays really get though?
The trailer did make me wonder if every town has a watering hole called “the pig n whistle”.
That trailer… very Beneath the Valley of the Planet of the Ultravixen Dolls. Which could mean they’re fucking with me and Charles Napier’s corpse. There’s a circle jerk here that makes Snowqueen Icedragon Jaqueline Susann and both movies somewhat interesting.
And nobody wants that. I refuse to play.