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.