Choke Trailer
MTV has the trailer for Choke, the film based off of Chuck Palahniuk’s dementedly dark novel of the same name. The casting is inspired; with Sam Rockwell playing Victor Mancini and Anjelica Huston playing his mother, Ida Mancini.
Actor/writer and now first-time director, Clark Gregg, adapted the novel for the screen. Gregg’s only other screenwriting credit is for Robert Zemeckis’ humdrum What Lies Beneath starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Still, the trailer looks spot on.
Choke remains my favorite Palahniuk novel, probably because it was the first of his works that I read. I hope the staged rape scene makes it to the film intact — I have never laughed so hard while reading a book before. I even used that scene as a literature performance piece during my first year at Emerson. My professor still brings up my “inappropriate” performance every time I run into him.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Ever since watching “Flight Club” and LOVING it, I’ve thought about reading a Chuck Palahniuk novel. I end up gravitating to his books in the book store, but never end up buying one. Too many choices. Would you recommend “Choke”? What others?
May 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“Choke” is great, so is “Fight Club” and “Invisible Monsters.” He has a collection of short stories called “Haunted” that is a really quite disturbing too. There’s another book called “Lullaby” that I haven’t read yet.
I would start with “Choke” or “Invisible Monsters.”
Actually, the very first thing of his I read was a short story he wrote for Playboy Magazine called “Guts.”