Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh in talks to co-write TV drama

American Psycho and Trainspotting authors set to collaborate for the first time on show about a manipulative American tabloid

Bret Easton Ellis dreamed up the depraved excesses of serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Irvine Welsh is the author who brought us the questionable morals of characters including Sick Boy and Begbie in Trainspotting. Now the pair are set to collaborate for the first time, co-creating a television drama about an American tabloid publication.

Burning Wheel Productions is in final talks with the two authors about a series that will follow a “rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, conmen and rapscallions – in other words, journalists – being brought together from across the globe to change not only the landscape but the power of the press forever from scandalous rumour to political puppetry”, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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