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Latest Chuck Palahniuk film news and gossip - now go get a carrot and some vaseline!
Hey folks, Harry here and this is some pretty cool news. I just want Takeshi Miike to make Chuck Palahniuk's GUTS - is that too much to ask? Here's what is in the cards...
well i just got back from one of the many readings/signings that Chuck Palahniuk's been doing lately, and while I was there I asked about any news of new film projects he would be doing. First I asked about him doing anything with Spike Jonze, and he said that he and Spike and David Fincher all went way back, and when spike got permission to make some underground films (i'm going by memory of what he said here) he [Spike] asked [Palahniuk] to write some for him, but then Palahniuk went on tour.
That might be old news to you.
What's news to me, though, is that he said every one of his books that hadn't become a movie yet were all in preproduction, save for Lullaby (which was kind of a downer to me because I think Lullaby is his best book.)
Apparently, the team behind the (Hellblazer) Constantine flick had Survivor in mind as their next project, that Diary had already been optioned (if he said more about it, my memory serves me incorrectly) and that a script was written and casting had begun for Invisible Monsters, with Jessica Biel and two other actors whose names escape me. Same deal with Choke, except casting had not yet begun.
That's all my memory can bring me in the department of specifics, but just keep this in mind: ALL OF HIS BOOKS ARE IN PRE-PRODUCTION (save for Lullaby, which I guess I'll just have to make when I become a famous director. There's no other way.)
Also he said that my town's reading was the first one on his tour where he read Guts and nobody passed out or vomited. That made me feel real nice. Also there's a fight club musical in the works (which i'd read somewhere before) but also that Brad Pitt had a verbal agreement to be in them with David Fincher, who would direct it for the stage and the showings would be free (palahniuk quoted fincher as saying that it would be "obscene to charge money.") Also, somewhere in Britain they're working on a fight club ballet. After all this news (i was surprised he didnt mention the video game) he said that he didn't care what they did with his book "as long as the fucking check clears." Awesome guy.
Feel free to edit this as necessary, if you use it call me spiffythedog.
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I hope this is a winner since the book is brilliant and a good starter for those who want to read beyond Fight Club. My only concern regarding Chuck's writing is that he doesn't become a "splatter-punk" writer while he ventures into the Horror genre.
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Before the Fight Club movie came out not a lot of people had heard about him. Then the movie comes out, people look into his writing and suddenly everything he writes sells better.
You can't just read one Palahniuk book. You get hooked. So even if they do make a ballet, anyone that goes to see it will most likely become a fan of his books.
As long as they buy the books, I'm sure Palahniuk doesn't have to worry too much about maintaining his "artistic integrity." -
Survivor is his best written book, IMHO. I just hope -- as with any CP book -- that they do the thing justice.
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Whatever. GUTS was a Playboy short story, which Palahniuk was inspired to write by a friend of a friend, that was never published. Hardly what I would consider 'a book' among all that are optioned.
This posting was jumping the gun. Besides, how could a quick story about a kid protracting his anus on the swimming pool drain by made into a movie? -
How much you wanna bet he says that in every city where nobody passes out or vomits? Which is to say nearly all of them, most likely. Has anybody been to a reading where somebody did? Sure, you have.
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Sep 30, 2004 11:36:22 AM CDT
There's a difference between 'development' and 'preproduction'
by numberface
Are you sure some of these aren't in development?
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That is going to be a weird movie. They are going to have to edit that movie so much. i can not really see his movies (other then surviver) really working into movies that much. have not read guts yet but am excited.
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The type of people that think this guy is a top-notch writer are the type of people that think Donnie Darko was a good film. In other words, suckers with no taste. Fight Club was an atrocious book. He actually used the term "human butt wipe" more than once. What a jackass.
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Choke would (will) make an incredible movie. Dark, depressing, and a nice twist towards the end. Please just cast Philip Seymour Hoffman as the fat friend with the bad cold and all will be right with the world.
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The characters have no depth, the plot is ridiculous, and the "sex on the ceiling" bit has to be one of the worst non-Dave Eggers passages I've ever read
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Sep 30, 2004 4:13:58 PM CDT
CHOKE is by far P's best book, and it makes some kind of effort
by lenny nero
This way, it doesn't feel like Chuck is just being smarmy and detached, which sometimes destroys any suspense in his stories (i.e. SURVIVOR)
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That's right, get those legs in the air Chuck. Send some pictures to Bill Watterson of you wearing a crown holding fistfuls of cash in a jacuzzi filled with Cristal and the Swedish bikini team(does such a thing exist? it should). He'll get a chuckle.
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I've only read FIGHT CLUB, SURVIVOR and CHOKE but I think Survivor is definitely my fav. one. Nice to see after 9/11 they're still planning to do a movie that has a plane hijack as the main point of the book. (no big spoiler on this post, kids, its revealed a plane has been hijacked on the first page. don't be all gettin up in mah pudding for a spoiler, homies. Word.)
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that's too bad, lullaby was probably my favorite.
i loved choke, but you'd have to make the movie NC-17, or it would not be made right. -
Survivor has a great first half (the whole twisted 'Amish' world), but really devolves into a boring downward spiral once his agent gets a hold of him.
Umm.. Choke, is so far and away his best book its crazy. It just sucks, with the way he truthfully depicts sexual addiction .. you could never show it on film. I mean, the whole chapter where the main character "rapes" that prudish woman is classic. It would make a terrific scene. But how could you show it without being NC-17? Its cool to see Chuck get the success he deserves .. alot of great authors struggle while they are alive. -
Although I agree with Harold's need for paid sexual gratification (takes one to know one) I must inform you that his comment about the carrot and the vaseline is a reference to CP's short story GUTS and not just some random evidence of his childish sexual apetite. That said, I'm gone to get some candle wax. Oh and SUCKS DUDE you are the most annoying talkbacker here. There's only one rule to get into talkback lore and that is to spontaneously appeal to the rest. You are actually trying to become part of talkback tradition, ripping off Chicken George and being plainly unfunny. Good luck next time. And thus, R.I.P. "Sucks" Dude.
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So, it was "sucks" guy, not dude. Dude, do I suck.
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Fuck Survivor big time!! I don't feel confident at all hearing the news that the team behind Constantine are planning to make this flick! I always thought that the book's material really suited a director like Spike Jonze, well to be honest most of Chuck's book's would translate well if Spike was in the director's chair!
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And I'm totally serious about "The Last Starfighter" musical. I hope AICN gives us some news about that and Fight Club. Hopefully somebody will have the good sense to base a musical on David Lynch's Dune someday, that would fucking rule! I'm truly surprised the "Krull guy" hasn't sreamed bloody murder for one. oh yeah, the "sucks guy"...sux
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The sucks guy is ok in comparison to the 1400 or so guys that gets into almost every post concerning something that is ever so slightly weird and says 'the sort of people that go for this are the sort of people that liked donnie darko ' I don't see what the problem is ? Is it that these books/donnie darko aren't that weird that u can spend ages debating /prattling on about what u think it means , is it that you are upset that something slightly weird has become a bit mainstream hence you have to say it's crap cos it's not weird enough and it upsets you that the people interested by them aren't neccesarrily goths and or/ narcicists or existential or philosophical enough for you ? Whats the problem ? it's ENTERTAINMENT it's not the be all and end all and you should be able to see the quality even if you don't like the subject. It's not been written by some hack , we aren't seeing a further 6 books in the 'Tyler Durden saga, so stop crying that you can't feel all intellectual anymore talking about fight club cos everyone has read it or seen it ...
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Palhaniuk is repetitive and boring, and Diary was one of the worst books I've ever read. He can't even manage to keep his style consistent for one book...but he can manage to continually crank out shite that revolves around cheap gross-out or transparent suspense. Lullabye was a little better, but still, none of his other stuff so far lives up to the promise of the material that Fincher presented in Fight Club. Hell, I don't even know, maybe the movie's much better than the book in that case.
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I think Chuck'd rather have his picture taken with the Swedish Ski Rescue Team guys, as he's of the homosexual persuasion.
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Palahniuk came out of the closet - finally - last year. AS IF Fight Club the book wasn't clue enough! Anyway - any word on who may be cast as the Survivor lead?? Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Spacey are too old for the roles now (their names were rumored years ago). What character actor could pull off the physical transformation - Christian Bale perhaps? Or Ed Norton?
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