[GEEK OUT] Kanye West + Bret Easton Ellis = ‘AMERICAN PSYCHO’ Promo for Yeezus

I guess I’m a little late on this one but there was an article on Pitchfork that featured the promo and went a little more in depth with the creation of the project. Apparently, Kanye West got in touch with Bret Easton Ellis to fashion some of the dialogue between Patrick Bateman & Paul Allen in the infamous kill scene to work it as a promo for Kanye’s new album, Yeezus.

In an interview with MTV, Ellis explained how this came about:

Kanye came to me and asked me to write it so I wrote the promo. I just got a text one day… it said, ‘It’s Kanye, do you have time to rap?’ And then suddenly my phone rang and someone said, ‘Kanye got your number and he wants you to write this promo for Yeezus,‘ and so we went back and forth on it and he wanted it done, like, that day. So I wrote it very quickly and they shot it two or three days later.

It is also said in the interview that Ellis & Kanye plan on working on another project.

Kanye and I have been meeting about writing a script for him so that’s a project that’s kind of in the works

The promo stars Scott Disick, who has always reminded me of an odd mix of Bale & Leto anyway, from Keeping Up with the Kardashians. While the dialogue might be a re-working, the film is practically a shot for shot remake of Mary Harron’s adaptation. In case you haven’t seen it, check it out below.

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