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Fight Club's revenge origins and $65 million cost stir renewed talk

Original: Chuck Palahniuk wrote it out of revenge. It cost 20th Century Fox sixty five million dollars, and insults everyone who p

Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club, the basis for David Fincher's 1999 film, was written as an act of revenge, according to remarks circulating online. The adaptation reportedly cost 20th Century Fox around $65 million, a sum that initially puzzled the studio given the story's abrasive tone, and the film famously mocks consumer culture while appealing to the very audiences who bought tickets to it.

Why now: A renewed wave of online discussion about Fight Club's production story and paradoxical commercial success.

Chuck PalahniukDavid Fincher20th Century FoxFight Club

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