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
Chuck Palahniuk an HBO miniseries. On September 11, 2014, the film version of "Rant" was announced, starring James Franco, with Pamela Romanowsky writing and directing. Beside his various promotional outings, Palahniuk has made several television appearances to discuss cultural issues, including "" exploring his beloved Pacific Northwest in 2007 and the BBC's "Hardtalk Extra" in 2004. The narratives of Palahniuk's books often are structured in medias res, starting at the temporal end, with the protagonist recounting the events that led up to the point at which the book begins. "Lullaby" used a variation of this, alternating between the normal, linear narrative and