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Chuck Palahniuk and Spike Jonze cooking something up!!!

I would say first... by fullmetalracket	Sep 11th, 2003 08:34:27 AM
but im not going to.
Hank... by redtom	Sep 11th, 2003 08:38:30 AM
...Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fight Club...
Chuckie's back? by ChickenGeorgeVII	Sep 11th, 2003 09:01:25 AM
Spike Jonze is working with THE DEAD DRUMMER OF STYX??????? HOT DAMN!!!! I KNEW HE WOULDN'T STAY DEAD FOR LONG!!!! HE'S GOT SOME GREAT ASS STORIES FROM BEYOND!!! AND HE'S GIVING THEM ALL TO SPIKE??? THAT'S ALMOST AS GOOD AS BRETT RATNER OR McG!!!!! WOOO!!! I AM WET MYSELF LONG BEFORE THIS HITS THE THEATERS!!!!! WOOP! I DID IT ALREADY!!!...And thus, I have spoken! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
"Passed out"? Surely not. by Lumin Kadare	Sep 11th, 2003 09:09:23 AM
People passed out during a reading? What kind of faint-hearted nannies went to it? Let's hope a Narcoleptics Anonymous session finished up nextdoor just before the reading and a few decided to have a look.
I passed out at a reading of "Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redhe by rev_skarekroe	Sep 11th, 2003 09:11:59 AM
It was chilling, CHILLING I SAY! sk
"who is chuck?" - WTF? Jump infront of a fucking truck! by GuywithPo	Sep 11th, 2003 09:35:07 AM
"who is chuck?" - WTF? Jump infront of a fucking truck! Now. You'll be fine. I promise. Do yourself a favor - buy ALL of his books and read them. I understand you're fielding my input here under "crazy mofo" but still - just go out and listen to me. Really. Just do it. Go and buy his stuff. Save yourself.
HOLY DEAR GOD by DieErVonSatan	Sep 11th, 2003 09:37:09 AM
im in the middle of that book right now. ive read all his book(he's the guy that wrote fight club for those of you who dont know). That would be awsome. My fav author and one of my fav directors.
Yeah, it got me thinking about my "invisible carrot" moment by Heywood Jablowme	Sep 11th, 2003 10:08:26 AM
Caught him in KC last night. Chuck rules. Said something about the people who worked on American Beauty doing something with Diary and that Miramax was working with Invisible Monsters. He did say that the powers-that-be have "stuck a pin" in Survivor, for obvious reasons. Go read the new book, it's good.
Survivor was a stupid book...why a movie? by aceattorney	Sep 11th, 2003 10:59:07 AM
Amish parodies are so passe...
choke by ReDWasK	Sep 11th, 2003 11:19:56 AM
better than survivor, but who the fuck am i :P
Nice. Talk about a dream collaboration.... by Manaqua	Sep 11th, 2003 11:21:17 AM
Lets keep the ol' fingers crossed.
Boston by jimmychitwood	Sep 11th, 2003 11:39:15 AM
chuck's in boston tonight...i'll post again if he says anything worth repeating...and DAMN am i happy that george is here...love that chicken...
Bad Idea by Truman_Burbank	Sep 11th, 2003 11:49:47 AM
These two don't mesh, at all. Sorry. Sounds to me like a dumb fucking idea, or maybe Spike was just humoring ol' Chuck during a conversation or something. Spike > Chuck. Much. And yes, I've read all his fucking books. They're just not as smart as people say they are.
Can't be as bad as Fight Club... by paddington	Sep 11th, 2003 01:07:29 PM
As much as I'm a Fincher fan... he dropped the ball on this film badly.
I call Shenanigans! by Gheorghe Zamfir	Sep 11th, 2003 03:33:01 PM
Or I'll just say plain ole "Bullshit." People passing out at a reading? Please. Unless the guy means they were falling asleep from boredom we get to beat him with brooms.
guy with po...etry by SuperTooth	Sep 11th, 2003 06:15:49 PM
nice poem, guywithpo...etry
pass out??? by SimpsonsQuoteMan	Sep 11th, 2003 06:37:35 PM
um yeah sure. "ooooh we're handing out $1,000,000 life insurance becuase this story is soOoOOooOOoOo scarifying!!! oohohOHOhohohOHO" /william castle ref
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, YES! by empyreal0	Sep 11th, 2003 07:01:18 PM
Hmm. Lemme see. Kick ass surrealist director. Quite possibly my favorite author. I'm going to have to see this.
by DyslexicHeart	Sep 11th, 2003 08:00:13 PM
I don't think Chuck Palahniuk is a god, but I don't hate him either. He's just ok in my book - no pun intended. I'm more interested in seeing the work of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran-Foer or David Eggers being brought to life onscreen. And Spike Jonze needs to work with another screenwriter because Adaptation, while entertaining, it felt too similar to Being John Malkovich in tone. Same thing goes for Sam Mendes, having only directed two films, both of which in the main character is shot to death at the end(and neither one is even close to being a surprise, although I think there was more redemption with Perdition's ending and that it was the better overall film). Even Spike's wife, Sofia Coppola, has directed both somer and dark film about the suburbs(The Virgin Suicides) but followed it up with a completely different film with vibrance and adventure(Lost in Translation). Maybe I'm just a sap who likes to see more things than just dark and pessimistic.
Good news by pseudonym420	Sep 11th, 2003 10:48:34 PM
What more can I say? Long time fan of both Jonze and Pahlaniuk. Whatever they do will be fucking gold. No question.
Cool by Ribbons	Sep 11th, 2003 11:40:41 PM
Not to sound too pretentiously esoteric, of course. ;-) Seriously, this news does have me excited (in a purely nonsexual way, that is)
fuck you DyslexicHeart, how bout putting a spoiler warning on yo by Cherub Rock	Sep 12th, 2003 01:49:50 AM
i still haven't seen Road to perdition.. damn this film will be king. "Fight Club" is a modern classic, and apparently "Survivor" is an even better novel.. maybe John Malkovich could star. Personally, i think Jonze and Palahniuk are a match made in heaven
Chuck in Boston by Bloodwedding	Sep 12th, 2003 09:24:56 AM
Went to see Chuck Palahniuk last night in Boston. Cool reading. His short story was utterly gross, but no one passed out. I was sitting in front of a bunch of mamby pambies who just couldn't deal though. It was pretty over the top. w/r/t movies, Chuck mentioned last night that they're into a second (or was it a third?) draft of a screenplay for Choke, and will be casting soon. He had little to say about the possible Spike Jonze collaboration other than that maybe he'll try to convince him to do Survivor.
See, now THIS is cool news.... by Boris the Blade	Sep 12th, 2003 10:33:25 AM
Alittle more of this and alittle less of the bullshit Police Academy 8 news, and we'll be just fine. May we never be complete. And paddington, what are you talking about Fincher dropped the ball on Fight Club? If that movie isn't a faithful adaptation of the book, I don't know what is...hell, Chuck is on the dvd talking about it. Explain yourself, Paulson!
Just finished Lullaby . . . by Malik23	Sep 12th, 2003 03:43:40 PM
. . . and I was slightly disappointed by the ending. In a narrative sense, it got the job done by driving up the tension and (loosely) tying up threads. However, after such a promising beginning, I'd hoped for a more intelligent, socially relevant ending rather than more supernatural gimmicks. I don't want to leave the book with the only question running through my mind being: (spoiler begins ****** how did H.H.B get into the body of S. after dying? ***** spoiler ends). That was the most thought-provoking thing about the ending, and it pertained merely to the supernatural gimmicks. On the other hand, I very much appreciated the nods to Aldous Huxley's points in A Brave New World about how we are "amusing ourselves to death" (to borrow from Neil Postman). I like Chuck's critique of our entertainment-based culture and how it fills our minds with triviality and cuts off our imagination. (It reminds me of Hiedegger, as well.) However, one may ask: aren't his books just more examples of entertainment? Sure, they make you think, so maybe that's how he rationalizes criticizing entertainment while at the same time making a living by entertaining us. But that just brings me back to my disappointment over the ending. It seemed like nothing more than "fireworks" to ooh and ahh his audience, leaving us not with things to think about, but narrative tricks to distract us. Or maybe I missed the point somehow. Can anyone clue me in?
Paddington - Be More Specific! by PlasmaOrb	Sep 12th, 2003 05:09:12 PM
Paddington said he thought Fincher dropped the ball on Fight Club... if your reading this... respond back with a comment or two if you have one about why you think Fight Club was a bad movie. And dont say you could of done better... if Chuck on the commentary loved the way it came out and even saw a different perspective from Uhls writing of the script, then you have to have a serious issue here. I think Fincher dropped the ball on Panic Room, it was an ok film, but was predictable in alot of spots, it was shot beautifully and had a certain style, but it wasnt his best work to date. I think Fincher just does one film for the mass audiences and then one that he has more passion for. This is just my thoughts on it.. i havent heard him say anything on this.
Heywood...he was in KC? by fantasticx	Sep 12th, 2003 11:01:20 PM
I live in KC and I don't remember seeing him scheduled to make an appearance...was it part of Film Fest KC? Or something else?
I just like Spike Jonze alot more than Fincher... by paddington	Sep 13th, 2003 12:05:17 AM
That is all...
Where was "Guts" published? by Mr. Anderson	Sep 13th, 2003 03:29:07 AM
I've been a big Palahniuk for a few years now, and I'd have to say that CHOKE was my favorite, although I haven't read his last two books. So was this so-good-it-makes-people-pass-o ut-or-possibly-just-disgust-th em-into-unconciousness story published? I'd really like to read it...
Survivor? by Banky the Hack	Sep 15th, 2003 01:42:46 AM
Why would this become a movie, I think everyone and Herc could get together here and agree that there should only be a Big Brother or Amazing Race movie! OR FEAR FACTOR! WOW! THAT'D KICK A...wait....what, a book? Oh nevermind...
Re:Where was "Guts" published? by TheManInBlack	Sep 15th, 2003 02:29:52 AM
It hasn't been published yet, Chuck said it would probably come out as part of something in a couple years. He said he wants to read it for audiences for a while for now because he feels it's more of a personal experience for the indiviual listener to take away. There are probably people taping his reading somewhere, so if you dig around on kazaa you can probably find it eventually. I wouldn't mind a copy myself, though I will note that chuck asked that people not record him because of the personal experience thing, so if you have a moral objection based on that, see him live or wait for the book. So anyway, I got to see Palanhiuk's reading in New York City today, and yes, he read "Guts", and yes, folks passed out. Some lily-livered pencil-neck passed out briefly early on during a mildly disturbing bit, to which Chuck commented "That's 24", then, during the reeeally gross part, some poor guy passed out for half a minute, then woke up screaming, flailing and panicked! They calmed him down after a couple minutes but actually had paramedics take him to get checked out. It even seemed to disturb Chuck, and his publisher didn't want him to finish reading the story, but the audience kept asking for it. I'm not 100% sure all this isn't part of a publicity stunt, it's very melodramatic, but I could see how someone who'd been through (or close to) a similar trauma or is just very squeamish and suggestible could be quite disturbed by the story. It's not just WHAT hes describing, it's the storytelling, how he draws you in and sets you up. Even so, most of us in the audience thought it was just funny and gross. At the Q&A I asked about the Spike Jonze rumor and he said Spike called him up wanting to start work on something right away, but he had to go on the book tour and would be willing to do something once he got back if Spike was still available. And Chuck gave everyone who asked a question a little airline-size bottle of vodka! I had him sign mine afterwards... but I'm a geek.

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