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.
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