Luca Guadagnino is in final talks to direct a new adaptation of "American Psycho" for Lionsgate, the company announced on Friday. Scott Z. Burns is writing the script. Rather than a remake, the film will be a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel.

Lionsgate is in final negotiations with Challengers director Luca Guadagnino to make a new version of American Psycho — the classic story featuring Patrick Bateman who is a Wall Street investment banker by day and a serial killer by night.

Luca Guadagnino is set to direct a new version of American Psycho, the novel written by Bret Easton Ellis. Here's why he's a great fit for the director's chair.

It’s been announced that Lionsgate is in final negotiations with the Call Me by Your Name and Challengers director to helm the new version of American Psycho based off a script by Scott Z. Burns. It’s also been clarified that this project,