The Informers

Bret Easton Ellis (“Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho”) adapts his own acclaimed novel for the screen, returning to the Los Angeles of the early 1980’s with a multi-strand narrative that deftly balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con).

Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists—a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs—and one another—with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster and Amber Heard.


ps: The movie will not contain any vampires or zombies. In some countries, such as France, the book was even released under the title 'Zombies', this makes the omission extremely surprising.

The BOOK

The Informers is a collection of linked short stories by Bret Easton Ellis first published in 1994. It displays attributes similar to Ellis' novels Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction with the story set in California

“Coolly ferocious. . . . Truly unsettling.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . . Arguably Ellis's best.” —The Boston Globe

“Sparkles with a disturbing mix of humor and ultraviolence.” —Detroit Free Press

“Ellis . . . has a keen eye for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination.” —San Franciscop Chronicle

“Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion.”—The Washington Post

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