Author Of AMERICAN PSYCHO Tells Us Where Patrick Bateman Would Be Today

Bret Easton Ellis, the author of the book that became cult movie American Psycho, did this awesome editorial piece on his legacy in Town And Country. In it, Ellis reminisces on the 25 years it's been since he penned the book, and where we might find Patrick Bateman today...

I often thought that this was a time Bateman could have also thrived in, especially with the advent of new technologies that could have aided him in his ghoulish obsession with murder, execution, and torture—and in ways to record them. And sometimes I think that if I had written the book in the past decade, perhaps Bateman would have been working in Silicon Valley, living in Cupertino with excursions into San Francisco or down to Big Sur to the Post Ranch Inn and palling around with Zuckerberg and dining at the French Laundry, or lunching with Reed Hastings at Manresa in Los Gatos, wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing girls on Tinder. Certainly he could also just as easily be a hedge-funder in New York: Patrick Bateman begets Bill Ackman and Daniel Loeb.

He does such a great job of selling it I'm already on board for another one (after 2... 2 was awful)! Also did we just confirm that Bateman really did kill everyone in the film, and it wasn't in his head? I never read the novel, so I don't know how it differs from the film.