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Fight Club
Book
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.
In 1999, director David Fincher adapted the novel into a film of the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The film acquired a cult following despite underperforming financially. The film's prominence heightened the profile of the novel and that of Palahniuk. The sequel Fight Club 2 was released in comic book form in May 2015.
Fight Club 3 was released in comic book form in 2019
Author Chuck Palahniuk
Cover artist Michael Ian Kaye
Melissa Hayden
Proverbial Inc.
Country United States
Language English
Genre Satirical novel
Publisher W. W. Norton
Publication date August 17, 1996
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 208
ISBN 0-393-03976-5
In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight "as long as they have to." A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world.
Fight Club
Movie
Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).
Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. He and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising.
Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. The film later found commercial success with its DVD release, establishing Fight Club as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the film's release, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time."
Directed by David Fincher
Screenplay by Jim Uhls
Based on Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Produced by
Art Linson
Ceán Chaffin
Ross Grayson Bell
Starring
Brad Pitt
Edward Norton
Helena Bonham Carter
Meat Loaf Aday
Jared Leto
Cinematography Jeff Cronenweth
Edited by James Haygood
Music by The Dust Brothers
Production companies
Fox 2000 Pictures
Regency Enterprises
New Regency
Linson Films
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
September 10, 1999 (Venice)
October 15, 1999 (United States)
Running time 139 minutes
Country United States
Language English
HD. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star in this daring, controversial tale about a violent revolt against capitalism and corporate culture.
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