Missing American Psycho and can't wait for Lunar Park? Well hunger no more, because the next injection of Brett Easton Ellis' controversial and acerbic story-telling - **The Informers **- is making its way to the big screen, and the brand new trailer is online to prove it.
Taking place during one week in 1983, in a flashback to Ellis' own youth, seven disparate tales of rich and infamous "morally-challenged" hedonists collide. Based on a book of short stories published in 1994, the film was shot in late 2007, prior to the death in January 2008 of one of its stars, Brad Renfro.
The ensemble cast also features Mickey Rourke (pre-Wrestler comeback), Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster (looking a little bit Christian Bale), and Rhys Ifans. Also set to star was Superman Brandon Routh, who didn't make it to the final cut, when his vampire scenes were removed; and also Ashley Olsen, who was due to play Christie but was replaced by Amber Heard. Well, all the boys love her after all.
Evoking strong suggestions that only beautiful people lived in the 1980s, it has a searing soundtrack and looks to be the perfect accompaniment to Mary Harron's American Psycho and Roger Avary's The Rules Of Attraction. The film, directed by Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly), is due in cinemas May 2009. At last.