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Bret Easton Ellis (b. 1964)

Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Born:
March 7, 1964

Biography from TheMovieDB

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was 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. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most remembered for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynist; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

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Film Production

Author:
2008  The Informers

Book:
2008  The Informers
2013  American Psycho

Characters:
2008  The Informers
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho

Director:
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
????  Relapse

Executive Producer:
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

Novel:
1987  Less Than Zero
2000  American Psycho
2002  The Rules of Attraction
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
????  American Psycho
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

Producer:
1987  Less Than Zero
2000  American Psycho
2002  The Rules of Attraction
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
2020  Smiley Face Killers
????  American Psycho
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

Screenplay:
1987  Less Than Zero
2000  American Psycho
2002  The Rules of Attraction
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
2020  Smiley Face Killers
????  American Psycho
????  Bait
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

Thanks:
1987  Less Than Zero
2000  American Psycho
2002  The Rules of Attraction
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
2020  Smiley Face Killers
????  American Psycho
????  Bait
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

Writer:
1987  Less Than Zero
1998  This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
2000  American Psycho
2002  The Rules of Attraction
2008  The Informers
2010  Behind the scenes of All That Glitters
2010  Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2013  American Psycho
2013  The Canyons
2015  Orpheus
2015  The Curse of Downers Grove
2016  Figaro
2019  The Arrangement
2020  Smiley Face Killers
????  American Psycho
????  Bait
????  Less than Zero
????  Relapse

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TV Production

Creator:
2016  The Deleted
????  The Follower

Director:
2016  The Deleted
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Executive Producer:
2016  The Deleted
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Writer:
2016  The Deleted
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