why aren't there more "chuck palahniuk" adaptations?

[Mr. Credible]

oh my sweet muffin... this guy is the best author... ever. if you disagree, that's cool, no hard feelings, but damn... he is good.

so, fight club is on the top of a lot of people's 'top movie' lists, and for good reason, it is one of the better books to come out... ever. but he has 3 or 4 books that are just as good, if not better (depending on your tastes), and 'fight club' (the movie), to my knowledge, was wildly successfull, so why is it his only book that has been adapted?

why not choke? why not invisible monsters? why not lullaby? why not diary? why not haunted? (although, that was my least favorite of his books)

if they got the right directors (the guy that did fight club, ahem!) these movies could be just as big 'cult faves' if not better... especially choke, which was one of my favorites... and diary a novel, which, with some changes (sorry, the book was great, but the story could use a nip and tuck here and there towards the end) could be just as great as fight club...

so, um... yeah. as muh money as fight club (i'm assuming) made, why aren't these movies being made?

hm?

 

[KenK]

I thought Choke was being adapted. I guess that one stalled. It's pretty out there, and I honestly don't know if it would have made all that great of a film.

 

[TheJaberwock]

man, i would love to see 'Survivor' adapted into a movie. it would be amazing...

 

[Rez]

Indeed, Fight Club rests in the middle of his works, with some being far better and some far worse. Survivor would probably be the best(as it is his most entertaining, and ripe for the screen), and Invisible Monsters would really benefit from a page to screen adaptation. Lullaby is great and would work great, and Choke would probably be my favourite movie ever. Haunted would be a better HBO series, and Diary sucked big time.

I know Survivor was on the fast track but got shafted once 9/11 happened, and last I heard IM was the next closest to being made.

 

[bored]

As much as I love "Haunted", there's no way it'd work on the screen.

 

[Addendum]

I wouldn't mind seeing Choke or Lullaby. Both were great and could make some damn good movies. However, I doubt anyone in Hollywood has the smarts to actually pull off a respectable movie adaptation, seeing as how they're more interested in churning out pointless remakes and un-needed sequels, and the obligatory typical ****e (like Epic Movie)

Diary sucked, and it's one of the few books I will never finish. Another one is that sci-fi book Levar Burton wrote.

 

[Dodger]

Maybe because FIGHT CLUB tanked. Tanked badly. It had a $63 million dollar budget but it only made $37 million. Studio heads are probably just weary. *****es

 

[Mr. Credible]

Indeed, Fight Club rests in the middle of his works, with some being far better and some far worse. Survivor would probably be the best(as it is his most entertaining, and ripe for the screen), and Invisible Monsters would really benefit from a page to screen adaptation. Lullaby is great and would work great, and Choke would probably be my favourite movie ever. Haunted would be a better HBO series, and Diary sucked big time.

I know Survivor was on the fast track but got shafted once 9/11 happened, and last I heard IM was the next closest to being made.

that's an awesome idea!

and i haven't read survivor yet, but it'll be next on my list when i finish invisible monsters.

and i'd hardly say that diary sucked... palahniuk's writing style alone makes it worth reading, but i'd agree it's probably his weakest link... still better than 90% of the stuff i've read though.

 

[Addendum]

Any book that I don't finish reading and have no desire to read again, sucked

 

[Rez]

Agreed. It's in my top five or so worst books I've ever finished. I kept coming back to it, hoping it would get better. It only got worse. Mr. Credible, if you think it's better than nearly everything else you've read, then you need to stop reading ****ty books.

 

[Cinemaman]

Fight Club is #1 in my TOP of favourite movies, it was perfect film.

What about other adaptations? I hope some of other books will get a green light.

 

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Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff Moving Forward

Source: ComingSoon.net
July 3, 2012



It's been some time since there was last an update on the feature film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Snuff, but today it has been revealed that Fabien Martorell (Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman) is attached to helm.

Martorell will direct the script that he co-wrote with Golan Ramras. Producers Jean Pierre Magro and Dean O’Toole will finance and produce through their London-based Immortal Transmedia along with Ramras, Martorell and Aperture Entertainment's Adam Goldworm.

Snuff is an R-rated story of love and redemption set in the green room of the world's biggest gang bang; porn priestess Cassie Wright intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication on camera with 600 men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera and are each connected to Cassie in strange ways. Like in all of Palahniuk's twisted tales, nobody is who they seem to be and things are going to get worse before they get better.

Chuck Palahniuk is the best selling author of numerous novels including “Fight Club” and "Choke," turned into films by David Fincher and Clark Gregg, respectively. Martorell, meanwhile, recently wrapped The Guns Story, a documentary about legendary guitarist Tracii Guns (founder of L.A. Guns and Guns N’ Roses), and is currently filming The Coin starring Christopher Lloyd and Kathryn Morris