Most of the Chuck Palahniuk fanboys we know own a Fight Club DVD. Many of them even had a poster to go along with it in college. We might have had a fake ID that “borrowed” the name Marla Singer back in the day. There’s also the Spartans, the Union Square fight club profiled in New York Magazine last summer. But yesterday a 17-year-old New Yorker was arrested for taking his dedication to the film too far. He bombed an Upper East Side Starbucks on Memorial Day because he wanted to be like Tyler Durden. Read More »
An annoucement over on Galley Cat that Chuck Palahniuk is launching a design contest to create a promotional logo for Pygmy pointed us to the trailer for the new “The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park” book. All could think of when we were watching it: Quentin Tarantino should do the film adaptation of this one. And then it could actually make some money at the box office (unlike Fight Club and Choke). Just a fangirl thought.
The New York Observer has a piece up today on the latest trend in literature: the anti-hero. So cutting edge! Apparently, there are two kinds of modern anti-heroes: the “emotionally misshapen,” socially dysfunctional tough guy, of which the prime examples are Holden Caulfield and the narrators of Notes from Underground and Fight Club, and the “the somewhat indulged, un-grown-up guy who has sort of philosophical ideas or objections to society and doesn’t know what to do with himself.”
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This past week the 1 train literati were in full swing every morning — fighting the vampire-obsessed for a free seat in the subway car.
Our assertion that you’ll see STEPHANIE MEYER around every corner was confirmed by multiple sightings of TWILIGHT and BREAKING DAWN; with the movie coming out this month there’s little chance of a break from Meyer. This will be the last update from us on this front unless there’s a real vampire involved — we don’t want to be redundant at the Big Brother Book Club.
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What’s the worst film adaptation of a book you’ve seen to date? Our apologies to Mrs. ASHTON KUTCHER but a painful version of THE SCARLET LETTER we were forced to watch in high school springs to mind.
Word just leaked that following in the footsteps of FIGHT CLUB and CHOKE, filmmaker KOEN MORTIER will bring CHUCK PALAHNIUK’s HAUNTED, a novel of twenty-three stomach-churning, interrelated short stories, to the big screen.
When you look at Choke‘s weak reviews and limited box office returns, it seems like the best-selling author’s gripping yet graphic work doesn’t translate into audience-friendly films — at least in the theaters (Fight Club made more money from VHS and DVD sales).
Where are those crazy cult fans who like to vomit at readings when you need them?
Check out one of the gory stories from Haunted here, and let us know if you think it has the cinematic potential to break Palahniuk’s box office curse, or if once again, his morbid magic will get lost in film translation.
