Back before the dawn of time (2004) Ain’t It Cool taunted us with rumors of [tag]Fight Club: the Musical[/tag]. They asked [tag]Chuck Pahalniuk[/tag] about it:

Seems it’s mostly true.

At a reading last night on the UW campus, Chuck answered a question from the audience about the fight club musical. He said that the same folks who financed the movie are tentatively behind it, as are Fincher and Reznor (who’s agreed to do the soundtrack!). but…he did note that while they’ve got a bunch of talk going on and the promise of Reznor, they ain’t got much else.

Chuck went on to say that most of the stuff they do with his writing he doesn’t care about; he says he can’t really control how the studios fuck with his characters or themes, so he just accepts the checks and goes on his way. Choke, Survivor and Invisible Monsters are all in some form gonna hit theaters (Choke first…starting filming in a couple months). BUT, he did say that he’d be personally involved in just about anything if he got to work with both Reznor and Fincher on the project (he said he’d even do “Fight Club on Ice” if that’s what it took).

Recently, I started seeing links to a Paste Magazine article that seems to repeat the rumor. Alas, Paste Magazine has one of the least reliable websites in the Universe, so I don’t know that we’ll ever know what the article really says unless we make the effort to find it reposted somewhere else.

[tag]McSweeney’s[/tag] posted a fake soundtrack listing for Fight Club: The Musical. “You Can’t Talk About Fight Club … but You Can Sing About Fight Club!”)

Over at The Cult (ChuckPalahniuk.Net), it appears that Cultleader Dennis is much too busy with the website redesign and news about the forthcoming release of the film version of [tag]Choke[/tag] to mention a Fight Club musical, even if there is one brewing. I tried to search the site but it’s really slow right now.

New Choke stills are posted, by the way. Also, tantalizing suggestions that I am Legend director Francis Lawrence may still be making [tag]Survivor[/tag]. I find that last bit much more exciting, because I adored Survivor but was sort of lukewarm about Choke. It was a great novel, I just wasn’t crazy about it. Maybe I should read it again, it’s a quick read. I’d rather see [tag]Fight Club on Ice[/tag], though. That sounds like it would be time well-spent.