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December 17, 2006 — BRET Easton Ellis is writing a horror-tinged soap opera for "Showtime" titled "The Canyons," says The Hollywood Reporter. Ellis - author of "American Psycho," "The Rules of Attraction" and "Less Than Zero," which were all made into movies - has ordered a script for the project, which will focus on a 29-year-old magazine editor who escapes his hard-partying New York life by following his best friend and a new girlfriend to L.A., only to find himself virtually isolated when his friend is killed in a mysterious accident. He and the other characters - including an art-gallery owner, lawyer, event plan ner and a closeted bartender - "encounter violent situations and anxieties that are briefly manifested as monsters and other ap paritions that may or may not be real," the trade journal reports.