Bret Easton Ellis wrote the screenplay for The Mountains.
 Ellis was approached by young screenwriter Nicholas Jarecki to adapt The Informers into a film; the script they co-wrote was cut from 150 to 94 pages and taken from Jarecki to give to Australian director Gregor Jordan, whose light-on-humor vision of the film met with negative reviews when it was released in 2009
 The Shards (2023) is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles

