Fight Club Rock Opera

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Posted: 6/1/15 at 8:31pm

Chuck Palahniuk
David Fincher
Trent Reznor
Julie Taymor

Yes please

[HogansHero]

Posted: 6/1/15 at 10:01pm

i'm there.

[theatregoer3]

Posted: 6/1/15 at 10:25pm

I would kill to be IN this.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 12:09am

Sounds iffy but epic.

Can't wait to hear what they do with it!!

[vfd88]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 12:53am

This is gonna be ridiculous and I can't wait.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 4:44am

I'm confused--would this be stage or film?  I've always wanted Fincher to do a musical (he pursued Evita for a while,) since the best of his music video work seems to show he really would be a good fit, and he's a big fanatic of the genre. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 8:33am

Waiting to hear what "His Name Was Robert Paulson" will sound like, because you just know that will be a song.

On a serious note, though, I think it would be nice if they manage to work in some stuff from the novel that didn't make it to the movie. The movie cleaves pretty close to the source for most of the run-time, but goes off the rails toward the end. The movie's ending is satisfying, I suppose, but it's a cliched upbeat Hollywood tweak that maybe the musical won't need, especially in this style and with this creative team involved.

SPOILERS WITHIN

In the book, Tyler Durden's demolition plan fails; the narrator shoots himself to escape the fictitious Tyler and ends up in an asylum, which he mistakes for heaven. Sinister suggestions reveal that Project Mayhem will continue, now out of his control. About as bleak as you can get, but overall it's quite fitting with the dark and twisted nature of the novel. But in the movie? We close on the sight of buildings collapsing as the now mentally sound narrator and his love interest, Marla, hold hands. They beat the system and fell in love.

END SPOILERS

Also, am I the only one hoping they bring back Meat Loaf, voice or no voice?