...in graphic novel format.
Considering this site's ties to Chuck, I figured this bit of news was worth posting about here. His site is pretty bogged down right now, but they also posted the news on Tumblr here.
Fight Club was hugely influential to me, even though I don't think my style is indicative of it anymore. Mixed in with all the classic lit I was reading at the time for school, it showed me prose could be cool and really bend the rules. I think Fight Club's strength was always that its symbolism is rich, deep, and powerful yet also accessible. I'm interested to see if a graphic novel will actually hinder that, as I think graphic novels are a bit more marginalized than traditional novels. Or, maybe it's just a primer for a new film.
In any cased, I'm stoked.
Never been a huge graphic novel follower, but this is one I will be buying on day-one! Too bad we have to wait so long!
We covered it here, as well.
http://litreactor.com/news/chuck-palahniuk-will-pen-graphic-novel-sequel...
if the art is right, if they get the right illustrators, i think i'll have to check it out.
The main thing I'm wondering is if the illustrations will key off of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
That's a good point, Brandon, I hadn't thought of that. What I read says that Jack and Marla are now married, so I wonder if Marla will be Helena Bonham Carter, as well. Hmm. I would guess yes, if only because they would want to get people who only saw the movie as well... ?
I almost think you'd almost have too, if for no other reason than for continuity. A visual presidence has been set. Why make the novel "graphic" otherwise? I don't menan that they have to be dead-ringers, but evoke them (Pitt, Norton, Carter) as least. I read Fight Club after I saw the movie, and I grafted their faces onto their names when I read them.
Would that mean having to get permission to use their likenesses or would that be covered by the original contract?
Also which ending is he going to carry on from? As the book and the film differ be intresting which one he goes for.
The book is the kind of story that I would never think needs a sequel, not that the new storyline sounds bad or anything. I'll probably wait for the TPB to check it out if it's released as a serial comic.
Palahniuk's writing is just a snippets and short scenes tied together into a narrative. So his style should transfer over well into the graphic form.
So, like Richard, I'm thinking the project is really going to rely on an artist that can capture the feel that everybody has already built up in their heads from reading the first book and then seeing the movie.
And, I guess at this point, the characters will have to look at least similar to Ed Norton and Brad Pitt, wouldn't they?
I read the novel just last year after seeing the movie back when it hit VHS and I really had no problem disconnecting the Norton/Pitt portrayals, but also I had a lot more fun with the physical descriptions of the characters in the book than the tamed down roughness of the film-universe. I'd hope Narrator's face would be an unrecognizable mass of swollen buttholes in the comic than some cartooned up jowly Ed Norton.
It's interesting to me that he calls the narrator 'Jack', since that is the narrator's (kinda) name from the movie version (it would be Joe if you went from the book). That makes me think the art will be based off the actors from the movie.
I could be reading too much into a name, though.
Good point, Bryan. I didn't even think about that. Then, I've read the book once, and have seen the movie probably ten times.
Neat.
Awesome, Tim. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, I can't wait for this either, as well as Doomed. I'm certainly a fan of his work.