The big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahnuik’s Choke is my second most anticipated movie of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The first Palahnuik film adaptation, Fight Club, had a great electronic score by The Dust Brothers, backed up by the powerful Pixies climax of “Where is My Mind”. So what will Clark Gregg’s film bring in terms of a musical sound? Here is a sneak peak:
- Radiohead - “Reckoner”
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - “Satan Said Dance”
- The Fiery Furnaces - “Navy Nurse”
- Ben Kweller - “The Rules”
- The Twilight Singers - “There’s Been An Accident”
- Rogue Wave - “Lake Michigan” (which plays out in the film’s final credits)
- Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Palindromes) composed the film’s score
- Alap Momin (a.k.a. The Oktopus) from the outré New Jersey hip-hop group, Dälek also scored one musical cue in the film.
Choke premieres on January 21st at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. I’ll be in Park City covering the festival, so check back for a review. No distribution deal is in place, but with the writers strike in full effect, I don’t expect any remotely marketable film to leave Park City without a studio deal.
source: theplaylist
January 11th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Sweet. thank you Peter!
Gonna start downloading as many as those as I can find.
and I’m marking Jan2108 on the calender… I’ll be refreshing the site every hour on the hour till I see that review.
( you lucky bastard!) :]
January 11th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Found the videos for 6 of them on youtube:
Radiohead- reckoner-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dUH_jKp1FE
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-satan said dance-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7rbzA-2nqk
Fiery Furnaces -
Navy nurse- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6yhe2-gk0
Ben Kweller - The Rules-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aPn7YCo6E
The Twilight Singers - There’s Been An Accident (Live)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9BMKf92uJs
Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86YGj5D6I3k
Shaping up to be a killer soundtrack.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Yeah, I don’t think it’s half bad
January 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Radiohead- reckoner-
January 11th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I love Chuck Palahniuk with all my heart. I hate Radiohead, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be there in opening week once it finds a distributor. Great picture.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Choke was one of my favorite books. I am glad they cast Sam Rockwell in it. He is such a cooky actor and he will totally pull it off.
I love the complete homoerotic overtones of Palahniuk’s books. In Fight Club it was all about the raw power of the fighting and the descriptions of the flesh pounding flesh sounds. The all male under ground clubs. It was brilliant because the movie made it this ultimate guys flick. And it cast the ultimate guy’s guy with Brad Pitt.
Choke will follow suit but in much more subtle. The whole part about anal beads is just beyond awesome in it’s gross context yet hilarious accident. I hope they put that in the movie.