In Cristofer’s script, like in Easton’s book, it’s mentioned that Clay is bisexual and a casual drug user. Producer Marvin Worth optioned Less Than Zero before it was even published and hired Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer to adapt the book for the big screen. THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT ADHERED TO THE NOVEL. But I worked on that book for like two years to get it to the place where I wanted it to be.” 2.
Now, I wrote that terrible first draft in eight weeks and people think that’s what was published. “And then as I was going through it, all of the fat started dropping away, and it became this completely different thing,” Ellis told Vice in 2010. While attending Bennington College, Ellis’s professor, Joe McGinniss-who had showed the book to his own agent-suggested Ellis use first-person narration.
BRET EASTON ELLIS SWITCHED THE NOVEL FROM THIRD TO FIRST PERSON.īret Easton Ellis began working on Less Than Zero when he was a sophomore in high school. Here are 12 facts about Less Than Zero, both the book and the film. But in recent years, it’s been embraced by Ellis and has become revered for its soundtrack, Downey Jr.’s raw performance, and Edward Lachman’s stunning cinematography (the DP would go on to be nominated for Oscars for Far From Heaven in 2003 and Carol in 2016). The movie was not a faithful adaptation of the novel in fact, McCarthy said, “I don’t think there’s a line of the book in the movie.” The movie grossed $12 million on an $8 million budget, which didn't exactly make it a hit. Two years later, Fox produced a film version of the book, starring Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, James Spader, and Robert Downey Jr. It became a bestseller and anointed Ellis as a member of the “literary Brat Pack,” alongside Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, Donna Tartt, and Jill Eisenstadt. In 1985 Simon & Schuster published the book.
He’s looking for his drug-addled childhood pal, Julian, who has fallen into a bad way. The story follows the exploits of Clay, an East Coast college student home in L.A. In 1984, a Bennington College student named Bret Easton Ellis sold his first novel for $5000 it was called Less Than Zero, named after an Elvis Costello song.
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