Consider the headline your NWS warning.  After the jump I’ve got the red-band trailer for The Informers, a Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly, Two Hands) directed adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis story, with a screenplay co-written by Ellis.

The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly nihilistic world of Ellis’ youth in Los Angeles. Seven storylines intersect, involving movie execs, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters.

Cast includes Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, and Brad Renfro.  So far, Bret Easton Ellis movie adaptations (American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero) have all been pretty good.  However, the plot of this book sounds a lot like Glamorama, which Ellis wrote about the same time and I recently had to put down after making it about 3/4ths of the way through.  It seems there’s a fine line between nihilistic and pointless.

Plus, teasing us with a title that sounds like it could be a biopic of Snow just isn’t cool.  He’s the most influential Canadian rasta rapper of all time!  *boom booms down*

[THIS IS WHERE THE TRAILER WOULD BE IF THEY DIDN'T MAKE ME TAKE IT DOWN]

Thanks to Ohad for the tip.

In-for-mer, me something something skibbidee skibbidee waay oh, he'll make ya boom boom do-owwwn….

Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers is coming to the big screen, with Gregor Jordan directing a screenplay written by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki.  Rounding out the cast are Billy Bob Thornton (whose forehead now belongs in a wax museum), Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh (Superman), Austin Nichols (John From Cincinnati), Jon Foster (Terminator 3), Lou Pucci (Thumbsucker), and Steven Tyler's long lost daughter.   

Much as it pains me to admit enjoying anything that annoying hipsters like, I am a Bret Easton Ellis fan. Try as I might, I can't bring myself to dislike something that involves an ATM demanding to be fed a stray cat.

The Informers was first published in 1995, a collection of loosely connected short stories captures a week in Los Angeles in 1983. The stories feature movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and as Ellis’ other works, various “morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.” 

Sounds kinda like the block parties I've been throwing. The neighborhood kids say I'm the best thing that ever happened to the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program. 

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