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Well, this is quite a dream team. Two men who know how to cut to the chase and get really dark and disturbing on you, Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) and Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Milk) with the easiest of topics to get crazy with, suicide, means that there is a theoretically awesome movie coming soon. They are teaming up to write a screenplay based on a 2008 Vanity Fair article The Golden Suicides. Ellis has been attached to write the script for Lionsgate, but the inclusion of Van Sant turns this into something that is definitely special, as two similar minded men teaming up to do something that is their bread and butter is Golden, pun intended.

The true story is about a “golden couple” who both committed suicide in 2007 and may have done so because of delusions of persecution and conspiracy. He was an artist, she was a game designer, they were perfect. Then things get weird; scientology threats, “oaths” to friends, and all sorts of stuff that makes the story weird at best and completely insane at worst. One walked into the ocean and never came back, the other took pills and did it the new old fashioned way.

You can read the original article here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/suicides200801

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Tags: American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, Elephant, Gus Van Sant, Less Than Zero, Lionsgate, Movie, The Golden Suicides, The Informers, Vanity Fair

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