Glitterati

Based on Bret Easton Ellis' book, Roger Avary published The Rules of Attraction in 2002. Few people were aware that Avary was simultaneously producing a second film, Glitterati, at the same time. In the movie Glitterati, Victor Ward travels over Europe, but no one he meets is aware that he is an actor portraying a role in a motion picture. This is because the movie's extra footage was used to make the film.

As Victor Ward, a shallow and egotistical wannabe model, tours Europe and gets involved in a terrorist conspiracy, Kip Pardue plays him in the movie Glitterati. The movie was put together using 70 hours of video taken for The Rules of Attraction's European segment. The Rules of Attraction and the upcoming Bret Easton Ellis movie Glamorama, which was to be helmed by Avary and starred Pardue, were meant to be connected by this movie. As a "pencil sketch of what would ultimately be the oil painting of Glamorama," Avary has referred to Glitterati.

Avary finished the film but acknowledges that nobody will ever see it outside of his own self-organized private screenings. This is mainly owing to the fact that in the film, actor Kip Pardue plays Ward, who seduces European ladies without letting them know he's a character actor. As you can expect, this has been criticized as being unethical.

Directed by:William Hooper