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Everybody knows that Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club made for one of the best movies that turned into a cult phenomena. Also, turning the author himself into somewhat of a huge thing. And let me not sound hypocritical. The guy is one of my favorite writers, I think there is something about the way he writes that is just brilliant, however trite his storyline scheme has become. I take a lot of inspiration from him. And because Tyler Durden was a bigger hit than anyone could have imagined, Palahniuk is a good target for adaptations. Sounds pretty okay, right? Maybe. Clark Gregg sure learned his lesson with his box office failure Choke – a film version of the CP story. Even with a cast including Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston, it still shattered its own self. But did it ever have potential? Sure, his novels are great to pick up and read and extremely appealing. Yet, they’re nowhere near the reality of anything. Nothing that happens in Palahniuk’s universe could occur in the real world. David Fincher knew that. Clark Gregg … not so much. He tried to make it something it wasn’t, a true story when most of CP’s stuff is fantasy. It is a parallel universe that takes the real world and makes it more absurd, so that Chuck can sit back and bash society and the consumer culture (which he does with such eloquence :)).
Of course, I didn’t come on here to bash Choke “The most disappointing movie I’ve seen in a while”. No, I am writing this because after years and years of trying to adapt certain CP novels (Survivor, Invisible Monsters) that will probably never happen, someone is finally going to step up and be bold. Koen Mortier (Ex-Drummer – which has some cult following of its own) is making Haunted, probably the most intense and horrifying of his novels – it also includes the most disgusting story I’ve ever read (“Guts” AKA The pool Scene). Now, if Mortier can get past Gregg’s mistake and take a word of advice from Fincher, this could be chilling. And not only could it be chilling, but it could make whole audiences leave due to some of the content in the story – that’s if Mortier is true and Saw hasn’t fried everybody’s brains already. 
Can we handle this, though? What kind of liberties might need to be made in order to make this whole thing suitable for worldwide viewing? Because the way I look at it, you’re going to have to dull it down a lot. Hopefully this will work, because there’s no one more excited than me to see yet another Palahniuk movie. So, let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope this Mortier guy makes us feel uncomfortable, just like Chuck is able to do.
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