Edward Norton Academy Award for Best Actor. Later, Norton starred with Matt Damon in "Rounders", which follows two friends who urgently need to earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club", Norton played an unreliable narrator who feels trapped in his white-collar position. It is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo and grappling. "Fight Club" premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, "I feel that "Fight Club" really, in a
Chuck Palahniuk began to build about adapting "Survivor" to film. The film rights to "Survivor" were sold in early 2001, but no movie studio had committed to filming the novel. After the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, movie studios apparently deemed the novel too controversial to film because it includes the hijacking and crashing of a civilian airplane. In mid-2004, however, 20th Century Fox committed to adapting Palahniuk's novel. Palahniuk has said that the same people who made the film "Constantine" will be working on this film. Following that, the film rights to "Invisible Monsters"