Our first official look at CHOKE is below, the Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg and Angelica Huston movie based upon Chuck Palahinuk’s popular novel. Chuck Plahinuk was of course the author of FIGHT CLUB, a great book which David Fincher turned into a cracking film which may have defined the 90’s.
The director of this movie is Clark Gregg. No that’s not a spelling error, he is an actor in the movie and is making his directorial debut with the flick after spending two decades as a steadily working actor. Unfortunately he did contribute to the script of WHAT LIES BENEATH but we shall forget about that because there is no way he can screw up a Plahinuk novel, right?
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom’s hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer’s disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who “saves” him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.
Our first look at the movie comes from Collider…
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Loved the book, moderately confident the film will be decent. Quite looking forward to it!
I love that book. I don’t see how it could become a film unless it got an NC-17, though. It was one graphic, sex-filled, highly offensive (not to me, but to many) sleaze feast.
Hmm. I always imagined the nurse as a little harder than Kelly MacDonald. She’ll be easy on the eyes though :) Wonder how they’ll handle the constant emphasis on her hair/brain?
Actually, I only just remembered how this ended. I can’t see Hollywood sticking to that, somehow…