Fight Club (1999): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Love claimed that she was cast as Marla Singer, but was fired after she rejected Pitt's pitch for a film about her late husband, Kurt Cobain.
• McCormick then forwarded the proof to producers Lawrence Bender and Art Linson, who also rejected it.
• Ziskin initially considered hiring Buck Henry to write the adaptation, finding Fight Club similar to the 1967 film The Graduate, which Henry had adapted.
• Fincher instead considered Edward Norton based on his performance in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt.
• It is based on the 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
• The studio held Fight Club's world premiere at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999.
• Nevertheless, Fight Club was originally slated to be released in July 1999, but was later changed to August 6, 1999.
• Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999, and was released in the United States on October 15, 1999, by 20th Century Fox.
• Executive producer Art Linson, who supported the film, recalled the response, "So many incidences of Fight Club were alarming, no group of executives could narrow them down."
• Fight Club opened commercially in the United States and Canada on October 15, 1999, and earned US$11 million in 1,963 theaters over the opening weekend.
• Some critics expressed concern that the film would incite copycat behavior, such as that seen after A Clockwork Orange debuted in Britain nearly three decades previously.
• When Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, the film was fiercely debated by critics.
• Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Uhls to write the film adaptation.
• Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman who forms Fight Club with the narrator.
• Edward Norton as the unnamed narrator, an insomniac automobile recall specialist dissatisfied with his consumerist lifestyle.

Source: Wikipedia

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