So we just finished making fun of the idea/news of a “Fight Club” musical and its chances of ever actually hitting the screen (which we assumed were zero; we laughed out loud when we first heard of it) when we realized that more news came out today that sees the idea moving slightly closer to a reality.
A few weeks back while promoting “Zodiac” on DVD (it’s even fucking looonger), notoriously fussy and fastidious “Fight Club” alpha-male director David Fincher told MTV, “I want at the 10-year anniversary to do ‘Fight Club’ as a musical on Broadway. I love the idea of that.” First off, the 10th anniversary of the film is 2009, so you better get your ass in gear if you actually want that idea to come to fruition.
Then “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk was asked about the subject by MTV a little while later and his amazement at Fincher’s disclosure about the idea made it seem like an actual real project. “So he’s now publicly talking about it?” Palahniuk marvelled. “If it happens, it would be extraordinary.”
Then, Palahniuk revealed that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor’s name was actually discussed and our skepticism started to evaporate.
“The last I heard from David was that Trent Reznor was going to do the music,” the author revealed (representatives for Reznor had no comment by press time).
And then we went, “wow.” So this sounds like more than idle wishlist talk to us. We still doubt in a million years that this will actually happen and we’d put large sums of money down that this would never be ready for 2009, but ok, now we’re officially intrigued and removing the shoe from our mouths. The author admitted he probably wouldn’t have anything to do with the musical. “I might write the book or the script,” Palahnuik said, “but [a musical is] a whole different animal for me.”