{"id":2120490,"date":"2025-10-28T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2120490"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:42:14","slug":"why-margot-robbie-replacing-christian-bale-in-american-psycho-remake-is-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-margot-robbie-replacing-christian-bale-in-american-psycho-remake-is-a-terrible-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Margot Robbie Replacing Christian Bale in American Psycho Remake Is a Terrible Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Margot Robbie<\/a> is in talks to star in a remake of American Psycho<\/a>, but many believe this decision could completely undermine the original\u2019s satirical genius (via The Sun). It would be a gender-swapped version of Patrick Bateman, the narcissistic serial killer Christian Bale<\/a> played in the 2000 movie.<\/p>\n

Mary Harron<\/a> helmed the film more than two decades ago, transforming the eponymous novel by Bret Easton into a sharp critique of consumerism, toxic masculinity, and their performativity. Now reports of the female-led remake have divided the internet.<\/p>\n

she’s becoming the queen of being cast in movies that destroy the entire point of the original work https:\/\/t.co\/KllRuirJUf<\/p>\n

\u2014 aurora<\/a> \u26b8 (@lynchianbush) October 27, 2025<\/p>\n

So,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margot Robbie is in talks to star in a remake of American Psycho, but many believe this decision could completely undermine the original\u2019s satirical genius (via The Sun). It would be a gender-swapped version of Patrick Bateman, the narcissistic serial killer Christian Bale played in the 2000 movie. Mary Harron helmed the film more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2120491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2120490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-Margot-Robbie-Replacing-Christian-Bale-in-American-Psycho-Remake.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120492,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120490\/revisions\/2120492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}