Insanity! Absolute INSANITY!
Just finding out that Kanye West is commissioning a Yeezus-inspired film is big enough news to blow away our britches, but we never would’ve guessed which creative genius he has tapped to take a crack at the film’s script!
Here’s a hint: The last feature flick this dude penned stared Lindsay Lohan & a plethora of porn stars!
Yup, we’re talking about Canyons scribe Bret Easton Ellis!
In a recent interview with Vice, the scandalous author took questions on the project.
He revealed:
It’s in Kanye Land, and that’s subject to a whole other time frame. He came and asked me to write the film. I didn’t want to at first. Then I listened to Yeezus. It was early summer last year and I was driving in my car. He’d given me an advance copy, and I thought, regardless of whether I’m right for this project, I want to work with whoever made this. So fuck it, I said yes. And that’s how it happened. That was seven or eight months ago. We’ll see what happens.
I really like him as a person. I know he comes off in this performance-art way in the press, but if you’re just alone with him in a room talking for three hours, it’s kind of mind-blowing.
Wowzers! We wouldn’t mind being bound to the Bound 2 singer for a three-hour stretch!!
But can B.E.E. help make this into a great movie?
The Canyons crashed and burned like Daniel Br├â┬╝hl in Rush, but Bret’s still the same dude who wrote the critically adored American Psycho and criminally underrated The Rules of Attraction – srsly, any book that results in THIS (NSFW) sex scene between Jessica Biel & James Van Der Beek can’t be all bad, right? – so we’re optimistic.
R U excited to see what kind of wacky awesomeness ‘Ye and Bret come up with??