Bret Easton Ellis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bret Easton Ellis
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Mar 7, 1964(1964-03-07)
Age	60
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Pisces

Bret Easton Ellis Biography

Bret Easton Ellis is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, United States. A American screenwriter and author of fiction The author is well- known for his novel of 1991, American Psycho. The book, as well as his earlier popular bestseller Less than Zero, were both made into films.

His film, American Psycho, was transformed into a movie which starred His thriller, American Psycho, was adapted into a film starring Christian Bale..

Ellis was born in Los Angeles and raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. His father, Robert Martin Ellis, was a property developer, and his mother, Dale (Dennis) Ellis, was a homemaker. They divorced in 1982. Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel American Psycho, that his father was abusive, and he became the basis of that book’s best-known character Patrick Bateman. Later Ellis claimed the character was not in fact based on his father, but on Ellis himself, saying that all of his work came from a specific place of pain he was going through in his life during the writing of each of his books. Ellis claims that while his family life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce, he mostly had an “idyllic” California childhood.

After the success and controversy of Less Than Zero in 1985, Ellis became closely associated and good friends with fellow Brat Pack writer Jay McInerney: the two became known as the “toxic twins” for their highly publicized late night debauchery.

He was born living in Los Angeles, California. He was identified as bisexual, gay and a heterosexual in various stages of his life. He wrote to his book, Lunar Park, to his friend, Michael Wade Kaplan.

Bret Easton Ellis Net Worth

Bret Easton Ellis is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bret Easton Ellis 's net worth $200 Thousand. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Bennington College, where he was introduced to his fellow author He attended Bennington College, where he met fellow writer Jonathan Lethem. His controversial debut novel, Less Than Zero, was published in 1985.. The novel he wrote with a controversial title, Less Than Zero, was published in the year 1985.

His screenplay is of The Canyons, a film which starred He wrote the screenplay for The Canyons, a film starring Lindsay Lohan..

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so- called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.

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Ellis became a pariah for a time following the release of American Psycho (1991), which later became a critical and cult hit, more so after its 2000 movie adaptation. It has now been regarded as Ellis’ magnum opus, garnering acknowledgement from a number of academics. The Informers (1994) was offered to his publisher during Glamorama’s long writing history. Ellis wrote a screenplay for The Rules of Attraction’ s film adaptation, which was not used. He records a fictionalized version of his life story up until this point in the first chapter of Lunar Park (2005). After the death of his lover Michael Wade Kaplan, Ellis was spurred to finish Lunar Park and inflected it with a new tone of wistfulness.

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Lunar Park was dedicated to his lover, Michael Wade Kaplan, who died shortly before he finished the book, and to Ellis’s father, Robert Ellis, who died in

1992. In one interview Ellis described feeling a liberation in the completion of the novel that allowed him to come to terms with unresolved issues about his father. In the “author Q&A” for Lunar Park on the Random House website, Ellis comments on his relationship with Robert, and says he feels that his father was a “tough case” who left him damaged. Having grown older and “mellow[ed] out”, Ellis describes how his opinion of his father changed since 15 years ago when writing Glamorama (in which the central conspiracy concerns the relationship of a father and son). Earlier in his career, Ellis said he based the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho on his father, but in a 2010 interview he claimed to have lied about this explanation. Explaining that “Patrick Bateman was about me,” he said, “I didn’t want to finally own up to the responsibility of being Patrick Bateman, so I laid it on my father, I laid it on Wall Street.” In reality, the book was “about me at the time, and I wrote about all my rage and feelings.” To James Brown, he clarified that Bateman was based on “my father a little bit but I was living that lifestyle; my father wasn’t in New York the same age as Patrick Bateman, living in the same building, going to the same places that Patrick Bateman was going to.”

Where is Bret Easton Ellis now?

In recent years, Ellis has continued to publish fiction while also writing screenplays, including for Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons,” which became notorious for its troubled production. Since 2013, he has hosted the “Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” on Patreon.

Is Bret Easton Ellis Rich?

The comparison between American Psycho’s serial-killer protagonist and its controversial author is easily made. Patrick Bateman and Bret Easton Ellis are both rich.

Where does Bret Easton Ellis live?

Ellis lives in a nice two-bedroom apartment near Beverly Hills.

Is Bret Easton Ellis literary fiction?

Ellis has come to be known as a sort of “bad boy” of literary fiction. His novels are dark, disturbing, and populated by characters filled with malaise. Ellis began writing at Bennington College in Vermont where he attended a creative writing course (Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch, was a classmate).

What does Bret Easton Ellis think of the movie?

“I also don’t think really works as a film ,” he told Film School Rejects about the 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. Also, you have to make a decision whether Patrick Bateman kills people or doesn’t.