Preview, Poster, Trailer: THE INFORMERS
By Norm Schrager at March 3, 2009 | 12:15 am | Print
Few writers have skewered 1980s excess like Bret Easton Ellis. American Psycho. Less Than Zero. The Rules of Attraction. Now Ellis’ The Informers, set in the pretty-people, drug-happy Los Angeles of 1983, is ready for a theater near you next month. During this year’s Sundance Film Festival, our buddies at The Playlist reported the film’s definitely not for all tastes and even left a site contributor commenting “I kinda feel sick.” Onward!
The Informers Movie Poster
The Informers is a collection of tales about some twisted characters — empty rock star, aging newscaster, creepy doorman, amoral ex-con — and their world of blondes, boobs and bastards, tearing through life as only Ellis characters can.
The Informers Trailer
The book, published in 1994 (though Ellis wrote most of it a decade earlier), saw some medicore-to-poor reviews refer to the book as outdated and too derivative. For the film version, Ellis has co-written the screenplay with Nicholas Jarecki, a first-time feature writer who followed James Toback around for the documentary The Outsider (2005).
:: CAST
Wide and weird. Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Amber Heard, Lou Pucci, Jon Foster, Chris Isaak and, in his last performance, the late Brad Renfro.
:: DIRECTOR
Australian Gregor Jordan, director of the overlooked Buffalo Soldiers (2001) with Joaquin Phoenix and Ned Kelly (2003), starring Heath Ledger.
:: RELEASE DATE
April 24, 2009
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