Bret Easton Ellis: Does he look like the writer of the world's creepiest fiction to you? No? Us Neither.

Visionary director Gus Van Sant (Milk) and the writer of American Psycho and Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis, are to pen a film about the double suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

The Golden Suicides first appeared as an article in Vanity Fair written by Nancy Jo Sales. Now they’ve decided to turn it into a film.

These are the deets, according to Variety: Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, California, art scenes. She was one of the first videogame designers for girls, and his “digital paintings” (kaleidoscopic images shown on plasma screens) established him as a rising star on the circuit.

The couple descended into a paranoid spiral when the artists developed a consuming belief that government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. She killed herself in 2007. Blake found her body on the floor of their bedroom, and walked into the Atlantic Ocean a week later, ending his life.

Braxton Pope, Kevin Frakes and Hengameh Panahi will produce. No word yet on cast or a release date.