Angelina Jolie Not Doing Cuaron’s Gravity After All? Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis Wrote The Golden Suicides With Her in Mind

Posted on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

Earlier this week it was reported that Angelina Jolie had dropped out of Wanted 2, effectively killing that film (no great loss) and that she would instead star in Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming ’space thriller’ Gravity. Cuarón doing a space thriller? Fantastic. Doing it with Jolie’s financial pull? Potentially incredible.

But now it seems the report on Gravity may have been premature, and that Jolie isn’t doing the film after all. Another minor report, meanwhile, suggests she could be part of the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted The Golden Suicides. Read More »

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team to Write Suicide Film

Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 by Russ Fischer

How’s this for a pairing: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming to write a screenplay based on Vanity Fair’s 2008 article The Golden Suicides. Ellis had previously been announced as the screenwriter for the Lionsgate project, but the addition of Van Sant makes the thing even more interesting. The article looks into the dual suicides of ‘golden couple’ Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, who each committed suicide in 2007, and may have done so after developing delusions of persecution and conspiracy. Read More »