One of the biggest new stars on Netflix has volunteered himself to play Christian Bale’s most unhinged role in a new remake.
Last week, it was announced that fans would officially be getting their hands on a reboot of American Psycho, more than two decades after Mary Harron’s flick hit the big screen.
Luca Guadagnino will be serving as director, adapting Brett Easton Ellis’ controversial novel focusing on Patrick Bateman, a creepy, image-obsessed investment banker, and his double life as a deranged serial killer.
Although the cast has not yet been confirmed, Cooper Koch revealed that he would be keen to take part, following his huge success as Erik Menendez in Netflix drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
‘Luca’s doing American Psycho, so I think I can do Patrick Bateman,’ he told the Hollywood Reporter.
‘I haven’t played a serial killer yet so I think I could do it.
‘Things are coming in, things are moving, things are happening, taking meetings, and the needle is threading so we’ll see, nothing is locked in or happening yet.’
As well as publicly throwing his name into the mix for the upcoming project, Cooper also declared that Luca’s most recent movie, Challengers, was his favorite of 2024.
Deadline initially confirmed the filmmaker’s involvement in the new movie last week – it is not said to be a remake of the 2000 version, but instead a ‘new take’ on Brett’s 1991 novel.
Lionsgate posted a blood-splattered mock-up of the script last week, announcing the project.
‘We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate,’ Adam Fogelson, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair told the outlet. ‘Luca is a brilliant artist, and the perfect visionary to create a whole new interpretation of this potent and classic IP.’
The original movie was set in 1987 and first released in 2000 – it quickly became a cult classic despite a grim plot.
Christian expertly led the cast with his stint as Patrick Bateman, alongside Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux and Chloe Sevigny.
Despite the star-studded line-up, many slammed the adaptation and it currently commands a 68% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to an audience rating of 85%.
Brett himself previously voiced his concerns to Film School Rejects, via IndieWire, due to the ambiguous ending and questions over whether Patrick really did kill his victims, or whether he was hallucinating throughout.
‘I don’t think it really works as a film. The movie is fine, but I think that book is unadaptable because it’s about consciousness, and you can’t really shoot that sensibility,’ the author said.
‘You have to make a decision whether Patrick Bateman kills people or doesn’t. Regardless of how Mary Harron wants to shoot that ending, we’ve already seen him kill people; it doesn’t matter if he has some crisis of memory at the end.
‘The book itself doesn’t really answer a lot of the questions it poses, but by the very nature of the medium of a movie, you kind of have to answer those questions.
‘And a movie automatically says, “It’s real,” then, at the end, it tries to have it both ways by suggesting that it wasn’t. Which you could argue is interesting, but I think it basically confused a lot of people, and I think even Mary would admit that.’