Invisible Monsters

topic posted Tue, October 28, 2003 - 2:31 PM by  Jonathan
Anyone think the movie will be good?
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Jonathan
Portland
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    Fri, November 21, 2003 - 9:34 AM
    there's going to be a movie?! (sorry if this is old news.)
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      Fri, November 21, 2003 - 9:38 AM
      Yeah i think all of chucks books are at least optioned to become movies except maybe survivor at this point.
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        Fri, November 21, 2003 - 12:48 PM
        It's worth noting that the delta between an option and a movie is huuuuuuuge! An option means someone put money down to have exclusive rights to make a film based on the book for some time period. It's much more common for the options to expire without a film being made, and sometimes the authors can generate a nice cash flow from options expiring and being renewed without ever having the movie get made.
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          Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:11 PM

          I'd love to see this one as a movie, i really loved this story and i think it would translate really well.
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            Wed, December 24, 2003 - 12:36 PM
            I think Survivor would make a great film, too bad CBS would never let it happen. But that one has the best visuals, dancing during emergencies and all that.

            It always depends on who directs them, of course. Luckily, he writes like such a whirlwind it's hard not to imagine movies of his books.
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              Wed, December 24, 2003 - 2:38 PM
              Some wouldn't transfer easily to the screen; the moral threshold for a reader of his works is not exactly a common ground for the average Joe Shmoe.

              *Invisible Monsters: second lead character is transgendered, lead is appallingly mutilated. Most folks are too sheltered to accept this.

              *Survivor: lead is an escaped cultist, who opts to entertain himself with talking people through their suicides, rather than out of them. Where to start?

              *Choke: the lead's best friend is a chronic masturbator. Not 'kind of', but full-time. DiCaprio will _own_ this role.

              *Lullaby: high marks for potential, I figure. Least amount of socially deviant figures in the book, barring the 'child'-thing. I'd pay top dollar to see someone do the Roadside Jesus routine on screen, though.

              Fight Club made to the big screen with innate appeal, familiar faces, and an immensely dense core of talent and effects. Pitt as Tyler Durden was *exactly* as I saw him; Jack was nearly a perfect match for Edward Norton. The bit with the liposuction clinic could have been redone in its original setting (Marla's mother's ass collagen in her fridge) but barring that, it was beautiful.

              And in my mind, it ended like the book. Shush, you.
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                Sun, March 21, 2004 - 5:13 PM
                I think most people who are fans of Chuck's don't always like movies that everyone will like. That is what would make the film version of these so great. They wouldn't be main stream. They wouldn't be something everyone could easily stomach. Thats the beauty of it. And I think, so an extent, that since both Chuck and Fight Club have such cult followings, that whichever novel is next made a movie will automatically have fans.
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                  Sun, March 21, 2004 - 5:56 PM

                  c.p. was also saying that due to all the defcon four political knee-jerking there's been this censorship imposed on screenplays & novels...& that publishing companies actually have something like malpractice insurance for their authors....and consequently, a lot of formerly green lit productions have become these all-but-abandoned vehicles. so, we may not see invisible monsters for some time.
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    Sun, March 21, 2004 - 1:17 PM
    I talked to Chuck during a San Francisco book tour last year & he said they were thinking Parker Posey or Charlize Theron for the role of Shannon -fuckin'- McFarland.

    Sorry Mom.
    Sorry God.
    Sorry Chuck.

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    Fri, January 21, 2005 - 10:46 AM
    They could easily fuck it up. The lead character's jaw is shot off. They could change that, even though it fucks up the whole story.

    Also, I would bet the way they scam drugs out of the houses is taken out.

    But who knows? Maybe it will come through some cool low budget avenue that doesn't have to compromise.

    I think Survivor will never be made, nor will Lullaby. Or Guts: The Movie. But Diary I see happening.
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      Tue, March 15, 2005 - 10:12 AM
      They were supposed to make Survivor, but the movie company backed out or something, there is a petition going around online to bring it into production....so find it and sign it if you can

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