Chuck Palahniuk fans rejoice!
Fox Searchlight, who just picked up the rights to Clark Gregg’s big screen adaptation of Choke for $5 Million, has announced that the film will hit theaters on:
August 1st 2008
Yeah, I know, seven months is a long time to wait. But hey, look on the bright side, it’s getting a release by Fox Searchlight. That almost guarantees that the film will platform into your neck of the woods sooner or later.
Directed by: Clark Gregg
Written by: Clark Gregg, adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad Henke, Clark Gregg
Plot Synopsis: Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private mental hospital by working days as a historical reenactor. At night he runs a scam where he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor must enlist the aid of his best friend, Denny, a recovering chronic masturbator, and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve this mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Saw the first post about this flick. That plot synopsis wasn’t clear, is this a dark comedy?
January 25th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Palahniuk is the guy who made fight club… of course this is a dark comedy! :)
January 25th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Ah, durr on me! Super good news that he nabbed Fox.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Sweet. Thanks Peter!
I’m booking that week off now.
Although… You had every chance to make a bootleg….. and have multiple torrents available by now. So I blame YOU that I cant see it any sooner.
:P
Whens the “official” trailer coming out?
March 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I can’t wait this movie is going to be great. I just read the book for a second time and just picturing rockwell as mancini is going to be awesome