In 1999, the identical yr twentieth Century Fox introduced a movie adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Combat Membership to the display screen, a brand new Palahniuk novel – known as Survivor – reached e-book retailer cabinets. So Fox picked up the movie rights to that one, too. They only by no means made the film. As Palahniuk defined to Digital Spy, “David Fincher (director of Fight Club) was really pushing [Fox] in their development and they’d gotten Jake Paltrow – Gwyneth’s brother – to write a screenplay and people were very happy with that. They’d started to cast it but then 9/11 happened and that seemed to harpoon all kinds of transgressive comedies.” In 2008, the rights had been acquired by I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence, who wrote the screenplay and mentioned it could be his subsequent venture after I Am Legend… however it wasn’t. He by no means bought his Survivor adaptation into manufacturing and the rights slipped out of his fingers. Now, Deadline stories of a 3rd try to get a Survivor adaptation going, this time by author/director Daniel Brown.
Brown made his function directorial debut with Your Fortunate Day, an motion thriller starring the late Angus Cloud, which obtained a theatrical launch in November 2023.
What’s Survivor about?
With this movie, Brown might be bringing the next story to the display screen: Tender Branson ― final surviving member of the so-called “Creedish Death Cult” ― is dictating his unbelievable life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 toes someplace over the Pacific Ocean. He’s on their own within the airplane, which can shortly attain terminal velocity and crash into the huge Australian outback. Earlier than it does, he’ll unfold the story of his journey from an obedient Creedish baby and humble home servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, writer of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even higher promoting Ebook of Very Frequent Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Forestall Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Automobile Alarms). He’ll even share his perception that “the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,” and deny duty for the Tender Branson Delicate Supplies Landfill ― a 20,000-acre repository for the nation’s outdated pornography. Amongst different issues each weird and trenchant. Palahniuk’s novel is described as being “a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.”
Manufacturing
The movie adaptation is being produced by Ryan Rettig and Miles David Romney for Group Backyard and financier V42, together with Mel Turner and Axel Paton of Floor Management. Filming is predicted to happen in Auckland, New Zealand someday in early 2026.
Right here’s hoping that Daniel Brown could have higher luck with Survivor than Jake Paltrow and Francis Lawrence did. Up to now, the one Palahniuk novel apart from Combat Membership to get the movie remedy is Choke. Directed by Clark Gregg, that movie was launched in 2008.
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