Deaths Of 'Conspiracy' Blogger & Artist Boyfriend To Be Subject Of New Film By Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant



By Darryl Mason

It's just a short snippet in a longer story from the LA Times about author/screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, Imperial Bedrooms, a sequel o his 25 year old debut Less Than Zero, but it caught my attention like nothing else has in days :

(Bret Easton Ellis) is currently at work on a script based on artist Jeremy Blake and his girlfriend, writer-blogger Theresa Duncan, titled "The Golden Suicides."

Gus Van Sant (Last Days, Elephant) is currently producing the movie of Ellis' screenplay, which he hopes Van Sant will eventually agree to direct.

Ellis on The Golden Suicides :

I connected with the story a lot, so it was really exciting and emotional to write it. I didn’t find it depressing. I thought it was the most difficult thing I’ve had to write…I didn’t want to make up anything. I wanted the script to really follow what happened

Long-term readers of laden ladenfam may well remember the name Theresa Duncan.

She was a controversial New York City arts blogger, who died after detailing her fears of being pursued, and hounded, by Scientologists. Her partner of 12 years, artist Jeremy Blake, who shared some of her fears of Scientologists and doubts about the official government version of the events of 9/11, died a week later.

In the last years of Theresa Duncan's life, she developed a deep interest in government and military programs targeted at American citizens, including the CointelPro and MKULTRA programs, once derided as merely the delusions of paranoids and conspiracy theorists, but since proven (through declassified documents and files) to have been very real, and very dangerous.

Theresa Duncan spent the last months of her life apparently all too aware that her life was in danger, or close to ending, at least according to posts and the poetry she featured on her blog.

I wrote a long piece about Theresa Duncan's death on laden ladenfam, which you can read here.

From a post she wrote shortly before her death :

So it must be clear by now...that MK-ULTRA (and even weird, disinfo-saturated Project Monarch) are the ne plus ultra weapons of past decades, as if all the Cold War missile paranoia was just a smoke screen for all the body snatchers the Pentagon was beginning to hatch.

Mind control and psychological warfare are the primary weapons that led to our current Monarch Moment. Cults like Scientology and mind control-manufactured Monarch girlies and Operation Mockingbird are the fungus among us that has been eating away at the foundations of democracy for decades....

At the end of the post she linked to this video :




Theresa Duncan's excellent arts, philosophy and poetry blog, The Wit Of The Staircase, is thankfully still online and well worth exploring, if you're interested in that kind of thing. And if you're not, her writing will probably get you interested.

No word on how far away The Golden Suicides movie will be, but as it hasn't yet started casting or shooting, it is unlikely to hit cinemas before 2012.

Vanity Fair Story On The Deaths Of Duncan & Blake : The Golden Suicides


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