Ashley's Growing Up too

Ashley Olsen has just been cast in The Informers, a film based on Bret Easton Ellis’s short stories. Also in the cast are Billy Bob Thoron and Kim Basinger.

The story is about a group of young California adults in 1983 who confront their rootless lives, while their parents confront their rootless, disaffected children. Meanwhile, the Southland is terrorized by a series of murders committed by what looks like a vampire cult.

Also signing on for the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation are Austin Nichols ("John From Cincinnati"), Jon Foster and Lou Pucci ("Thumbsucker").

The Hollywood Reporter has at least a smidge of specific casting info, noting that Thornton will play a movie exec with Basinger as his wife, Superman's Routh will play a vampire and Olsen will play a sexually promiscuous girl.

Gregor Jordan ("Buffalo Soldiers") is directing the film, which features seven intersecting storylines taking place over one week in Los Angeles, circa 1983.

Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki adapted the "American Psycho" author's collection of stories and production will begin in October in Los Angeles, Uruguay and Buenos Aires.