Brett Easton Ellis’ The Shards Set For HBO Adaptation

Brett Easton Ellis is famously hard to please when it comes to screen adaptations of his novels.

He said American Psycho doesn’t “really work as a film” even arguing that the movie’s success could be partially attributed to what he described as “woke” culture. In fact, of his four works that have been turned into movies, he has said that The Rules of Attraction was “the only one that captured the sensibility of the novel in a cinematic way.”

Thus, HBO’s upcoming adaptation of his 2023 novel The ...