No one can accuse gay author Chuck Palahniuk of lacking originality. His novel Fight Club explored the hyper-masculine world of underground fighting from the viewpoint of a mentally ill participant.

His novel Choke centers around a sex addict who fakes choking accidents for cash so that he can pay his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother's nursing-home bills.

Now Choke is following Fight Club to film, at the hands of first-time filmmaker Clark Gregg.

Gregg, a well-known character actor (in the "Oh, hey, it's that guy" vein) directs Sam Rockwell (The Assassination of Jesse James) in the lead and Angelica Huston as the mom.

The movie premieres early in 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival with a planned theatrical release shortly after.

That means Palahniuk's obsessive fan base still has time to re-read the book.

Last update: 12-11-2007 13:08