Chuck Palahniuk 'Fight Club' Movie, Comic Book Series: Sequel Takes Place 10 Years Later, Author Makes Good on Comic-Con Promise
Even though no one is supposed to talk about Fight Club, news about a planned sequel to the book that spawned a popular movie has recently surfaced.
Years after the success of Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club," the author is now working on a 10-issue comic book sequel for Dark Horse Comics, USA Today reported. "Fight Club" was also well known for David Fincher's movie adaptation that starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in 1999, which was about an underground fighting club joined by the unnamed insomniac narrator.
The sequel will be set 10 years following where Fight Club left off in 1996. In "Fight Club 2," the unnamed character will be married to Marla Singer who was portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter in the movie version. They will be raising Junior, their 9-year-old son, to whom the unnamed narrator is struggling to become a good father.
Tylder Durden, played by Brad Pitt in the film, will also be returning. Palahniuk said that his true origin would be revealed in the new story. He also said that most of the first book's characters and Project Mayhem will be returning in the comic book series. "Fight Club 2" will take place both in the future and the past alternately after picking up a decade after the end of the first book.
Palahniuk will be at the San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Fight Club panel together with Fincher on Saturday, although the confirmation of the new project was accidentally made at New York Comic Con last year where he slipped and said that he was working on a sequel, the Guardian reported.
"Fight Club" is a popular novel about an underground society revolving around anarchic ideas and bare-knuckle brawls as a new form of therapy to the main character. The first part of the series with illustrations by Cameron Stewart is expected to be released in May 2015.
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