As I had previously heard and reported, Kristoffer Borgli (“Dream Scenario”) is officially set to direct the highly anticipated HBO adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ "The Shards."
"The Shards,” almost out of development and in full blown pre-production mode, is being written by Ellis, and based on his own novel. The book is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis' final year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles. Jacob Elordi is rumored to star, but there’s been no confirmation on his casting.
Luca Guadagnino was also rumored to direct a few episodes on “The Shards,” but he is no longer part of the project. The idea is for “The Shards” to have three seasons of ten episodes each and Ellis will be writing them all. The author mentioned that there would be subplots in the series that weren’t in his novel.
Ellis, American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, director, always has always pushed buttons in our cultural. After all, this is the man who created “American Psycho” and Patrick Bateman, a work and character of transgressive art that warned us about consumer culture.