There’s a distinct possibility that author Chuck Palahniuk and director David Fincher are seriously messing with us when it comes to a “Fight Club” musical, which the auteur himself first alluded to in an interview with MTV News this past January.
On the one hand, Palahniuk keeps talking about it with us, most recently during an interview for the latest movie to be adapted from one of his novels, “Choke.” On the other hand, it’s absolutely, positively ridiculous. Or, as “Fight Club” co-star Jared Leto remarked when we asked about it in April, “I think that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard in my life."
“It seems bizarre but then ‘West Side Story’ probably seemed bizarre at the time it was made,” Palahniuk countered.
Taking the idea at face-value is actually more fun, anyway, since it gives us the opportunity to dream up all sorts of cool song and dance numbers for the production (not least of all, of course, being the “I Am the All-Singing, All Dancing Crap of This World,” piece, which will close Act I).
So what sequence does Palahniuk himself think will be the showstopper?
“It might be [the narrator] coming back to the support groups,” he laughed. “It’s a scene they didn’t do in the movie where the character is unmasked and humiliated and the support group actually redeems and rescues the character.”
What would be your guess for a “Fight Club” musical showstopper? What could some of the songs be titled? Would you even want to see this thing? Sound off below.
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