By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2010 11:54 pm EST
Ellis has a couple of movies in the pipeline, and now his upcoming novel Imperial Bedrooms may become a film as well.
The LA Times reports that at a Q&A during last weekend’s LAT Festival of Books, Ellis talked about his work in Hollywood, speaking in part about Imperial Bedrooms, his novel which will be published later this year, and which continues the story of Clay from Less Than Zero.
Working as a screenwriter has to be a rarely fulfilling endeavor for a successful novelist. (There’s so much interference and loss of control.) So I wonder if having a movie made of Imperial Bedrooms, which deals with Clay’s life as a screenwriter amidst a collection of Hollywood characters, might help Ellis purge some of his ugly history in filmmaking. If the movie is good, that is.
Ellis also talked about Lunar Park, which would adapt his 2005 novel that features some honest and many invented autobiographical elements. Benicio Del Toro was once attached to play the Ellis character, but the author now says that he thought Del Toro was miscast and that Jude Law may replace him.
