A while back I played a bar game in which people had to say a celebrity name and then describe a food that, when stated, makes you immediately think of that person. After several goes and more than several drinks, it got pretty wacky and when "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk's name got called, somehow the answer got to be "a grilled cheese sandwich being eaten whilst compulsively having sex in an airliner's bathroom as it's crashing into the ocean".

Thankfully the man himself is far more creative and roving spies 'ElectricMaidy and CrimsonKing' attended a book reading by Chuck in Chicago yesterday. He read from a short story and prefaced "Guts" by discussing the status of his novels as movies. Here we go:

"Survivor
Chuck says that it now WILL be made into a film! It sounds like the Paltrow screenplay is out, since he said the "hot duo" behind the upcoming CONSTANTINE want Survivor to be their next project. He did say that they were still seeking the rights to adapt the screenplay, but who knows how long until actual filming begins. Sounds interesting!

Invisible Monsters
Is supposed to begin production THIS YEAR with Jessica Biel starring in dual roles! This dark story about disfigured and insane supermodels, according to Chuck, is also trying to get either Val Kilmer or Billy Crudup in the male lead.

Choke
No casting news, but according to Chuck it is supposed to begin production late this year.

Diary
Will begin production next year.

Chuck also said his screenplay adaptation for the novel CHEMICAL PINK is officially dead. No word on his project(s) with Spike Jonze, but he did say he has "several, big projects" cooking with David Fincher. He sounded confident that one of them will begin production soon, but he said he is unable to talk about any of them at the present moment".

Thanks again to 'EM & CK'.