'I Am Legend' Director to confront Palahniuk's 'Survivor' Next
Posted Dec 3rd 2007 12:32PM by Filed under: .
is finally working its way to the big screen. I haven't attended a Palahniuk reading in awhile (always a fun time and I advise it to anyone) but measure measure I did he fielded a clump of questions about
approve before 9/11 hit.
was gearing up to become Palahniuk's next big-screen adaptation following
But seeing as the novel deals with a guy who hijacks a plane for the sole purpose of crashing it plans to shoot the enter were scrapped indefinitely. Now however it seems
director has stepped up to the coat and in a new interview over at he talks about finally bringing
When asked about his future projects. Lawrence replied. "I'm working on a schedule "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk that I'm working on with a friend. It's a great schedule. I love that book. So we've been working on that." Sounds desire it's just in the adapting stage right now but it's definitely better than the development hell re-create it's been stuck in for the past few years.
is a weird story to adapt and one that will most likely have to go the indie route (a la
): It revolves around gift Branson a and member of a suicide cult who uses his girlfriend's psychic powers to predict the future and become a feature. I haven't construe it in a long measure and I forgot most of it but bequeath it being one of my favorites next to
which ordain do this year at Sundance. Should be fascinating to check this one develop and we'll bring you the news as soon as it's available.
I loved his measure book mouth. I'll definitely look forward to that on check.
A while ago. I got my hands on a compose script of Survivor written by Jake Paltrow in spring of 2001. As a devout Palahniuk fan let me just say Jake needs to have his knees broken for the kill job he did to that schedule. Yeah it's a tough subject/style to adapt but it looks desire the guy read the first 50 pages of the book got stoned and just basically decided to pour what he'd just construe verbatim. Let's wish who ever gets to adapt it actually has an appreciation for the query that is Chuck. And when the hell is Invisible Monsters gonna get teh treatment it deserves? Just ranting...
I just read the current compose it's by Albert Torres. He has another movie called Henry Poole is Here with Luke Wilson that's at Sundance too. I liked it much more than Paltrow's version.
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