Woah! Hold your horses there. Before you get excited/run for the hills screaming, we knew this was happening, and this update come straight from the horses mouth. The writer of the original FIGHT CLUB novel Chuck Palahniuk has been working on a graphic novel sequel to the fantastic tale that revolved around Tyler Durden, which is said to take ten years after the original. Here, the author updates us on the progress and the themes that will be explored within in.
Palahniuk spoke to Hustler.
“So much of ‘Fight Club’ was a rant against fathers,” he said. “At the time every man I knew was complaining about how little he’d learned from his father. Even my own father felt bitter and let down by his father. Rather than continue in that vein, I wanted to revisit the protagonist once he himself had become a father.”
“The sequel will be told from the perspective of Tyler Durden as he observes the day-to-day tedium of the narrator’s life. Because 20th Century Fox created the convention of calling the protagonist Jack, I’m calling him Cornelius. He’s living a compromised life with a failing marriage, unsure about his passion for his wife. The typical midlife bullsh*t. Likewise, Marla is unsatisfied and dreams of accessing the wild man she’d once fallen in love with. She tampers with the small pharmacy of drugs that her husband needs to suppress Tyler, and Tyler reemerges to terrorize their lives.”
No news on when the graphic novel will hit shelves, but we’ll bring you updates as they head our way.
Source: Chuck Palahniuk
