Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It was directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontent with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the
Brad Pitt filmography Brad Pitt filmography Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer, whose acting career began in 1987 with uncredited roles in the films "No Way Out" and "Less Than Zero". He subsequently appeared in episodes for television shows during the late 1980s, and played his first major role in the slasher film "Cutting Class" (1989). He gained recognition in "Thelma & Louise" (1991) and "A River Runs Through It" (1992). He later took on the role of vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror drama "Interview with the Vampire" (1994) and for his performance in the epic