 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Pressman akaonekwa pa 1996 Cannes Film Festivalkutengesa kare kodzero dzokuparadzira, asi pasina kubudirira. Mary Harron akatsiva Cronenberg semutungamiriri achinyora script nyowani naGuinevere Turner; maitiro avo kune izvo zvinhu uye hunhu hwaBateman hwakakanganiswa ne giallo firimu raMario Bava Hatchet for the Honeymoon, nemunyori wenhoroondo weBava Tim Lucas achitaura kuti mafirimu ese ari maviri anoratidza vatambi vavo sevanokurudzirwa nechido chekuzviwana mukuuraya kwavo. Harron akaisa Christian Bale muchibvumirano chechitendero chakanaka, uye akabatanidza Willem Dafoe naJared Leto mumabasa anotsigira. Kubudirira kwakanga kuri kutsvaka kufambira mberi mushure memakore matanhatu ekurambwa neHollywood studios apo mutengesi wekuCanada akazvimirira Lionsgate Films akawana kuparadzirwa kwenyika yose muna April 1997. Pashure pokumirira kwegore, Bale naHarron vakanga vaine chinangwa chokutanga kupfura muna August 1998 pamadhora 610 mamiriyoni, asi Lionsgate panzvimbo pezvo yakatsvaka Edward Norton naLeonardo DiCaprio nokuda kwebasa guru, vachitaura kuti Bale akanga asina kuzivikanwa zvakakwana. Lionsgate yakanga ichiri kutarisira kupedzisa chibvumirano naHarron, nepo chibvumirano chaBale chokubata ruoko pasina chibvumirano chokubhadhara kana kutamba chakaregedzwa. Harron akaramba kusangana naDiCaprio, asina kufara sezvo akasarudza Bale uye akatenda kuti kuvapo kwaDiCaprio pachiratidziri kwaizove kwakanyanya kuita semukomana kuna Patrick Bateman. Akadavirawo kuti mukurumbira womutambi wacho sechidhori chechiduku chakatevera Romeo Juliet uye Titanic yaizotsausa kubva mukugadzirwa kwe American Psycho uye matauriro. 