Chuck Palahniuk is already working on "Fight Club 3", which will also be in comic form. He also confirmed that he is working on a series of original short stories for comics which will appear as one-shots before eventually being collected into a single book. A revised version of "Invisible Monsters", as well as his fourth novel, "Survivor", were published in 1999. A few years later Palahniuk managed to make his first "New York Times" bestseller, the novel "Choke", which later was made into a movie. The year 1999 brought a series of great personal tragedies to Palahniuk's life. At that time,
The Settlement (1999 film) The Settlement (1999 film) The Settlement is a 1999 film directed by Mark Steilen, starring John C. Reilly and William Fichtner. The film was screened at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in April 1999. Pat (John C. Reilly) and Jerry (William Fichtner) work on the fringes of the insurance industry in what are called "viatical settlements," which allow terminal patients the option of cashing in their life insurance policies before death for a reduced payment. In the 1980s, with AIDS cutting short what might have been long and healthy lives, business is booming for Pat and Jerry's firm, Viable