When author, screenwriter and semi-official chronicler of LA's nightlife scene Bret Easton Ellis speaks, Hollywood listens. Or at least Lindsay Lohan does.
Ellis has cast Lohan alongside real-life porn star James Deen in his new movie The Canyons, starring Deen as Christian, a "handsome, fit power player and major manipulator" who "enjoys setting up three-ways and filming them." Lindsay will be playing Tara, a former model who "has sold her pride for the material comforts [Christian] can provide," and while sadly the movie is not an out-and-out porno, hopefully acting alongside the guy known as "the Ryan Gosling of porn" will compel Lindsay to expose her peaks and valleys.
Ellis leaked the news over Twitter yesterday, tweeting "Shooting THE CANYONS starring James Deen and Lindsay Lohan: July 9-31 in L.A. Could not have dreamed of a better cast. Lindsay nailed it”
Let's hope she continues to nail it when the cameras are rolling, if you know what we mean.
And high off of the success of his latest announcement, Ellis has now started recruiting via Twitter for the movie version of 50 Shades of Grey despite not having any official connection to the project. So far he's volunteered himself (naturally) as screenwriter and proposed a motley crew that includes Emmy Rossum, Lena Dunham, Scarlett Johansson and Kristen Stewart as potential stars for the torrid SM fantasy tale.
So in other words, if you want to appoint yourself the porn king of Hollywood, all you need is a Twitter account and a lot of chutzpah. Writing the novels that Less Than Zero, American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, and The Informers (see them here at MrSkin.com) were based on probably helps too. But we're banking on the chutzpah. To Twitter!
