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‘American Psycho’ Broadway Musical Moving Forward
The brewing tuner adaptation of “American Psycho” has found its creative team, with Duncan Sheik penning music and lyrics and scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writing the book. A 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel that centers on a Wall Street banker who’s also a serial killer, “American Psycho” incorporates multiples references to the popular music of the 1980s, the era in which the story is set. Producers have said they expect the original score to share that 80s flavor. Read on for more.
Sheik nabbed a 2007 Tony as the composer of “Spring Awakening.” He also is at work on legit projects including “Nero” and “Whisper House,” which recently opened at the Old Globe in San Diego.
Aguirre-Sacasa, a writer on HBO skein “Big Love,” has penned plays including “Based on a Totally True Story,” “Good Boys and True” and “Dark Matters.”
“Psycho” was previously adapted into a 2000 Lionsgate pic toplined by Christian Bale.
Tuner is the first stage offering from the Johnson-Roessler Company, the shingle that paired former MGM senior exec David Johnson and former MGM TV exec Craig Roessler. The pair produce with Jesse Singer for Johnson-Roessler, along with The Collective’s Aaron Ray and XYZ Films’ Nate Bolotin. Ellis and Edward R. Pressman are consulting producers.
No production timeline for the developing musical has yet been nailed down.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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