Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Chuck! Palahniuk! MOVIES!

Its been about 90 years since Fight Club was released, watched and changed young men and women everywhere (at least until they realized that, they too, could not afford anything better than Ikea furni). And though the Pixies played over a genuine hand-holding whilst the economic infrastructure of America is demolish is probably an ending that shaln’t be topped, we have room to hope…

For…

CHOKE and INVISIBLE MONSTERS!!!


I’ve been hearing round these net parts that these movies were going to be produced sometime in the distant future, but the geeks at IMDB are now abuzz with some details.

"Choke"
Will star Sam Rockwell as Victor, Angelica Houston as his sick mommy and a few others that need not be mentioned at this time. I wish there was a movie poop shoot for this one.

Summary (in case you have not read the awesome book):
is a black comedy that follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor and runs a con scheme that involves deliberately choking in restaurants and attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother's (Huston) care at a private mental hospital.

He is forced to address his intimacy issues when he falls in love with his mother's doctor and discovers that he is unable to perform with the one woman he actually likes.

And even better: INVISIBLE MONSTERS

No word on actors for this one yet, but a few years back it was rumoring that bootylicious fallen angel Jessica Biel would play the morbidly deformed former model lead chick.

And will Brandy be played by a man or woman? A woman as a man as a woman?

This book is definitely my favorite of Chucks as the concept is quite interesting: what happens when the “pretty girl” loses her entire identity-her beauty? What did she do to the people around her when she still had her all-empowering beauty? Who shot her face off? Why did birds eat it?

1 comment:

Natalie said...

I remember that "Survivor" was in the works as a film right before 9/11.

That book was actually my introduction to Palahniuk, not "Fight Club." As such, it holds a special place in my heart.