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Script to Screen: American Psycho

Category: Arts
Duration: 00:24:54
Publish Date: 2025-05-28 16:00:00
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This week on On Story,  a conversation with screenwriter Guinevere Turner on her process writing American Psycho. Though polarizing upon its release, for over two decades American Psycho has remained a cornerstone of horror cinema.  

Turner herself has a dynamic career as a writer, director and actor.  Beyond American Psycho Turner wrote the films The Notorious Bettie Page, Charlie Says and her upcoming feature The Highway that Eats People. Turner also served as a story editor and played the recurring character Gabby Deveaux on Showtime’s hit queer television series, The L Word. 

AFF Moderator and journalist Michael MacCambridge sat down with Turner to discuss her process adapting the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, capturing zeitgeist within the script, and blending a unique and pioneering tone of satirical horror. 

American Psycho clips courtesy of Starz Entertainment.

 

 
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