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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BretEastonEllis felt that the only people who were actually well-cast were Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JamesSpader.
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* DevelopmentHell: Creator/{{Hulu}} optioned a TV series in 2018 that would have been TruerToTheText, but eventually decided not to proceed.
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* StillbornFranchise: Ellis has revealed that the film's main characters are all still alive in the present day, and has already begun looking ahead to the possibility of a film adaptation of the sequel ''Literature/ImperialBedrooms''. Ellis feels that interpreting it as a sequel to the 1987 Less Than Zero adaptation "would be a great idea" and hopes to be able to reunite Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, and Creator/JamiGertz should Fox option the sequel.
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* StillbornFranchise: Ellis has revealed that the film's main characters are all still alive in the present day, and has already begun looking ahead to the possibility of a film adaptation of the sequel ''Literature/ImperialBedrooms''. Ellis feels that interpreting it as a sequel to the 1987 Less Than Zero adaptation film "would be a great idea" and hopes to be able to reunite Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, and Creator/JamiGertz should Fox option the sequel.
** Creator/BridgetFonda was considered for Blair.
** According to screenwriter Harley Peyton, Creator/KieferSutherland and Creator/UmaThurman had auditioned for roles in the movie.
** According to screenwriter Harley Peyton, Creator/KieferSutherland and Creator/UmaThurman had auditioned for roles in the movie.
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** Creator/{{Hulu}} optioned a TV series in 2018 that would have been TruerToTheText, but eventually decided not to proceed.
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* StillbornFranchise: Ellis has revealed that the film's main characters are all still alive in the present day, and has already begun looking ahead to the possibility of a film adaptation of the sequel ''Literature/ImperialBedrooms''. Ellis feels that interpreting it as a sequel to the 1987 Less Than Zero adaptation "would be a great idea" and hopes to be able to reunite Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, and Jami Gertz should Fox option the sequel.
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* StillbornFranchise: Ellis has revealed that the film's main characters are all still alive in the present day, and has already begun looking ahead to the possibility of a film adaptation of the sequel ''Literature/ImperialBedrooms''. Ellis feels that interpreting it as a sequel to the 1987 Less Than Zero adaptation "would be a great idea" and hopes to be able to reunite Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, and Jami Gertz Creator/JamiGertz should Fox option the sequel.
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* BreakthroughHit: The novel was published while Creator/BretEastonEllis was twenty-one and still in college.
* InspirationForTheWork: Ellis cites his major influences as Joan Didion and Los Angeles noir, but he was also inspired by the moral ambiguity of ''Film/AmericanGigolo''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first draft was incredibly emotional and overwrought, and in the third-person. Ellis' creative writing teacher, novelist Joe [=McGinniss=], advised that he return to the first-person style of roman à clef (which Ellis was hesitant to do) and Ellis stripped it back, from there evoking the minimalist style for which it became famous.
* InspirationForTheWork: Ellis cites his major influences as Joan Didion and Los Angeles noir, but he was also inspired by the moral ambiguity of ''Film/AmericanGigolo''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first draft was incredibly emotional and overwrought, and in the third-person. Ellis' creative writing teacher, novelist Joe [=McGinniss=], advised that he return to the first-person style of roman à clef (which Ellis was hesitant to do) and Ellis stripped it back, from there evoking the minimalist style for which it became famous.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JamesSpader was briefly considered to play Clay Easton before the producers felt he would be more effective and stronger as the character Rip.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Despite the rough experience of the shoot, Creator/RobertDowneyJr considers this movie to be one of his all time favorite movies of his own, citing his performance of Julian Wells as "the ghost of Christmas Future", to his personal life.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Cinematographer Edward Lachman has said that the completed picture was originally a lot edgier and the studio, who felt the property was too edgy anyway and had limited the film's cost budget, wanted to tone down the movie and make it more commercial audience friendly, and did this by taking the film away from director Marek Kanievska in post-production.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/KeanuReeves was originally to play Clay Easton.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: StillbornFranchise: Ellis has revealed that the film's main characters are all still alive in the present day, and has already begun looking ahead to the possibility of a film adaptation of the sequel ''Literature/ImperialBedrooms''. Ellis feels that interpreting it as a sequel to the 1987 Less Than Zero adaptation "would be a great idea" and hopes to be able to reunite Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, and Jami Gertz should Fox option the sequel.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** In one version of the script, Clay was no longer amoral or passive.
** Creator/KeanuReeves was originally to play ClayEaston.Easton.
** Creator/StephenColbert auditioned for a role in this movie.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** In one version of the script, Clay was no longer amoral or passive.
** Creator/KeanuReeves was originally to play Clay
** Creator/StephenColbert auditioned for a role in this movie.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Creator/TheBangles' cover of Creator/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a hit to the point of almost [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Creator/TheBangles' Music/TheBangles' cover of Creator/SimonAndGarfunkel's Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a hit to the point of almost [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Creator/TheBangles' cover of Creator/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a hit to the point of almost [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Creator/TheBangles' cover of Creator/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a hit to the point of almost [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original.original.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Some of the film's english translations of this film's foreign film titles were as follows:
** Argentina: ''Corrupción en Beverly Hills'' (''Corruption in Beverly Hills'')
** Denmark: ''Livet i overhalingsbanen'' (''Life in the Fast Lane'')
** Finland: ''Alta Nollan'' (''Under Nothing'')
** France: ''Neige sur Beverly Hills'' (''Snow on Beverly Hills'')
** Germany: ''Unter Null'' (''Under Zero'')
** Israel: ''Young in Trap''
** Italy: ''Al Di Là Di Tutti i Limiti'' (''Beyond All the Limits'')
** Spain: ''Golpe al Sueño Americano'' (''A Blow to the American Dream'')
** Sweden: ''Noll Att Förlora'' (''Nothing to Lose'').
* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/BretEastonEllis hated the film initially. He admits that the film bears no resemblance to his novel but that it captured, "a certain youth culture during that decade that no other movie caught", and felt that it was miscast with the exceptions of Creator/RobertDowneyJr. and Creator/JamesSpader. Furthermore, he has said:
-->I think that movie is gorgeous, and the performances that I thought were shaky seem much better now. Like, Jami Gertz seems much better to me now than she did 20 years ago. It's something I can watch.
* RealitySubtext: Creator/RobertDowneyJr playing a drug addict. 'Nuff said.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/KeanuReeves was originally to play Clay Easton.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Some of the film's english translations of this film's foreign film titles were as follows:
** Argentina: ''Corrupción en Beverly Hills'' (''Corruption in Beverly Hills'')
** Denmark: ''Livet i overhalingsbanen'' (''Life in the Fast Lane'')
** Finland: ''Alta Nollan'' (''Under Nothing'')
** France: ''Neige sur Beverly Hills'' (''Snow on Beverly Hills'')
** Germany: ''Unter Null'' (''Under Zero'')
** Israel: ''Young in Trap''
** Italy: ''Al Di Là Di Tutti i Limiti'' (''Beyond All the Limits'')
** Spain: ''Golpe al Sueño Americano'' (''A Blow to the American Dream'')
** Sweden: ''Noll Att Förlora'' (''Nothing to Lose'').
* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/BretEastonEllis hated the film initially. He admits that the film bears no resemblance to his novel but that it captured, "a certain youth culture during that decade that no other movie caught", and felt that it was miscast with the exceptions of Creator/RobertDowneyJr. and Creator/JamesSpader. Furthermore, he has said:
-->I think that movie is gorgeous, and the performances that I thought were shaky seem much better now. Like, Jami Gertz seems much better to me now than she did 20 years ago. It's something I can watch.
* RealitySubtext: Creator/RobertDowneyJr playing a drug addict. 'Nuff said.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/KeanuReeves was originally to play Clay Easton.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Creator/TheBangles' cover of Creator/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a hit to the point of almost [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original.
