Christian Bale played the character in the original 2000 film
Cooper Koch is ready for a new challenge following the success of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 19, Koch, 28 — who played Erik in the hit Netflix show — said he’d now be up for taking on the role of Patrick Bateman in a new take on the 2000 film American Psycho.
Per Deadline, Call Me by Your Name movie-maker Luca Guadagnino, 53, is in “final negotiations” to direct a new version of the satirical thriller, which originally starred Christian Bale as investment banker Bateman. Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) is reportedly on board to write the upcoming script, which is said to be a “new adaptation” of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, rather than “a remake” of the original film.
“Luca’s doing American Psycho, so I think I can do Patrick Bateman,” Koch told THR of setting his sights on the role. “I haven’t played a serial killer yet so I think I could do it.”