The European edition of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah,” illustrated by Niko Henrichson. It comes to America in March 2014 through Image.
Comics and Hollywood are a give and take. Sometimes comics gives to Hollywood in the form of stories, characters and creators, and sometimes the comic industry takes.
Hidden beneath the stratospheric Comic-Con announcements of Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, a Superman vs. Batman and a post-coital Thor movie, several top Hollywood directors and film-friendly prose authors broke news they are coming to comics. Chief amongst those is that Chuck Palahniuk, author of the 1996 novel Fight Club (famously adapted to film by David Fincher), is writing a sequel. That story won’t take the form of a novel or even a movie, but as a series of graphic novels.
“It will likely be a series of books that update the story ten years after the seeming end of Tyler Durden,” Palahniuk said in an interview with his official fan website. “Nowadays, Tyler is telling the story, lurking inside Jack, and ready to launch a come-back. Jack is oblivious. Marla is bored. Their marriage has run aground on the rocky coastline of middle-aged suburban boredom. It’s only when their little boy disappears, kidnapped by Tyler, that Jack is dragged back into the world of Mayhem.”
Palahniuk says that the Fight Club 2 graphic novel series is a few years away due to “contract obligations,” and doesn’t plan on approaching publishers about it until he finishes the entire story.
The Fight Club creator has long been connected to comics, hosting comic book fan adaptations of this stories on his website, and even allowing Zenescope to do an official adaptation of Fight Club a few years ago. Palahniuk was at Comic-Con this weekend to promote his upcoming prose novel Doomed, and appeared at the ‘Ode To Nerds’ panel with several other geek-friendly prose authors.
In other news, upcoming Warcraft director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) announced that he has partnered with artist Glen Fabry and Dark Horse to adapt an unproduced screenplay titled Mute to comics. Jones has talked about Mute for several years, describing it as a Blade Runner-style story following a mute bartender hunting for her missing girlfriend in the underworld of a future Berlin. Mute was originally intended to be a sequel to his other film Moon, with Sam Rockwell’s character of Sam Bell pencilled in to make an appearance.
Also, earlier this month at Image Expo the avowed comic fan Darren Aronofsky announced that his graphic novel Noah which he published overseas a few years back will now be coming to America via Image coinciding with the film version in March 2014.
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Well, anything to get me away from the Big 2 for awhile. I’m in!
First off, YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!! Second, see the first thing.
Third, holy shit, a SERIES of sequels to “Fight Club”?! Unbelievable. At first I was very excited and ready to shave my head and don a red leather jacket but now thinking about it, not so much. The movie was 10 times better than the novel IMO, and I think it was because David Fincher was able to coalesce different themes and trim the book down to make the story better. Props to Chuck Palahniuk on his first novel and all; it’s original and weird and unique (and honestly has some funny parts I wish the movie had used or adapted) but it kinda fails compared to the movie.
I loved “Moon” and “Source Code” (but “Moon” was better IMO) so I was excited for “Mute” until I finished the description. Don’t think that’s gonna be for me.
I guess I’ll wait n see on the FC sequel, see if the author’s improved.
First off, Fight Club is my favorite movie and my favorite book. I love Palahniuk’s books (well most of them) and I’ve even met the guy at a book reading and he was the nicest person ever. Normaly, as a comic book fan, I should be gleeful at this annoucement but I’m not… Fight Club is pretty darn perfect on it’s own, it doesn’t need a sequel, even if it’s written by Palahniuk himself almost 20 years after the original book came out.
So yeah, unless it’s drawn by a superstar artist, I might sit this one out when it comes out and leave my appreciation of the book and the movie to the original content with a begining, a middle and especially an end!
I’m more excited by “Mute.” Glenn Fabry is one of my favorite artists hands-down.
Of all the things to NOT franchise…
“Fight Club” does not need a sequel, in any medium. It’s excellent, and it’s done.
I thought you were gonna say “a sequel would ruin the message behind Fight Club”. Which I think it does in a way, Jack is supposed to be a man at the end of both the movie and book (I think, it’s been awhile since I finished the book). Him needing Tyler again kinda dissolves that. He winds up in a bored suburban marriage with Marla? No wonder Tyler comes back, he’s fallen into another of the stereotypical male traps and devolved back to his beginning.
Can you smell that? Yeah, it smells like money in the air, simply…
Agreed. Fight Club is one of my favorite flicks and was super important to me in my early 20s when it came out, for better or worse.
A sequel undermines the revolution he started, right? I mean, at the end they’re basically bringing down the world economy. Now he’s in the suburbs like nothing happened?
The other things sound really cool, though, looking forward to those.
@Flakbait
It depends if it’s a sequel to the book or the film. In the book Tyler only tried to blow up a museum not banks AND HE FAILS (he made a mistake with his home-made explosives).
It’s a big difference that would make for a totally different sequel, so it’s important to know which one it’s a sequel too. Traditionally you would think he wrote the book so that’s what he would write a sequel too but the author of Who Plugged Roger Rabbit (which was adapted into the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit) ending up writing a book which was a sequel to the film NOT his original novel.
And I’m willing to bet the film is more well known than the book, Chuck himself admits he prefers it.
@Kzap, they actually blew up the IRS/Credit buildings in the movie.
Now that you mention it, it’s possible the sequel is for the movie NOT the book. Either way, I’m not for it. But I’m betting the sequel is for the book’s story, it’s more likely that Tyler survived in that version.
If I’m remembering right, while lacking the same sort of economic repercussions of the explosions at the end of the film, the book closes with the narrator/Tyler badly scarred (like Heath Ledger in TDK facial scars) and hospitalized while the space monkeys of project mayhem are still out in the world causing all kinds of trouble and hidden like sleepers in all levels of society. That was the spookiness of the book, that even if Tyler got talked down/ had his cathartic moment, the chaos of project mayhem was ongoing. That could be an interesting world to tell stories in, though I’m also a bit underwhelmed by the married with children set up. I’ll give it a shot though…