Washington DC, Feb. 21 -- Christian Bale's performance in American Psycho is one of the hard acts to follow for the stars, as many have refused the same role in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming directorial American Psycho, reported Deadline.

After Deadline exclusively announced director Luca Guadagnino and writer Scott Z. Burns' adaptation of the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis back in 2024, the author recently shared an update on the casting process for the upcoming feature.

"A couple of high-profile actors, whom I can't name, have turned it down. I think maybe because they don't want to be in the shoes of Christian Bale," Ellis said on a podcast as quoted by Deadline.

Ellis noted that Scott Z. Burns has since completed a new draft of the s...