Prepare to Choke in August 2008
Posted on Friday, January 25th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
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.
