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
Damned (Palahniuk novel) with his mother's death from lung cancer in 2009. Palahniuk has described the novel as "if "The Shawshank Redemption" had a baby by "The Lovely Bones" and it was raised by Judy Blume." and "it's kind of like "The Breakfast Club" set in Hell." Damned (Palahniuk novel) Damned is a 2011 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. A sequel to the novel, "Doomed", was released in 2013. The novel opens with 13-year-old Madison "Maddy" Spencer waking in Hell, unsure of the details surrounding her death. She believes she died of a marijuana overdose while her celebrity parents were attending the Academy Awards.