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Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She co-wrote the screenplay and directed American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, and I Shot Andy Warhol.
Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).
- January 1, 1
- 1 min
- Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada
- IT TOOK EIGHT YEARS TO MAKE IT TO THE SCREEN. In 1992, one year after its original publication, producer Edward Pressman bought the movie rights to Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho.
- DAVID CRONENBERG WAS ATTACHED TO DIRECT IT, TOO. As American Psycho continued its journey from novel to feature, David Cronenberg became attached to direct it.
- CRONENBERG’S VERSION ENDED WITH A MUSICAL NUMBER ATOP THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. Among those “invented scenes” was an elaborate musical finale that took place atop the World Trade Center.
- BALE WAS ADVISED THAT TAKING THE ROLE WAS CAREER SUICIDE. “When I offered [Bale] the part, he said he had all these messages on his answering machine telling him this was career suicide.
American Psycho is a 2000 satirical horror film directed by Mary Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. Based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, it stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a New York City investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer.
Apr 22, 2020 · In adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s turgid, gory 1991 novel to the screen, the director Mary Harron has boiled a bloated stew of brand names and butchery into a lean and mean horror comedy classic.
- Lila Shapiro
- Features Writer
Sep 12, 2018 · With Charlie Says, filmmaker Mary Harron attempts to bypass the mythology of Charles Manson and zero in on the experience of three of his female followers: Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel.
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Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).
