CHOKE will open on August 1, 2008.

  • Written for the Screen and Directed by Clark Gregg
  • Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Produced by Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell
  • Executive Produced by Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng
  • Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Jonah Bobo and Clark Gregg

Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

I completely agree. I read

I completely agree. I read this book a year or two ago and have always thought it and all of his books would make good movies. I had heard rumors years ago about someone buying the rights to Survivor but sadly i haven't heard anything about it since. Stellar cast in this one too, nobody could play a mentally disturbed sex addict like Sam Rockwell. I'm counting down the days till August 1st.

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I loved the book, I can't

I loved the book, I can't wait for this to come out. I wonder when we will start seeing trailers for this movie. I know Chuck Palahnuik once wrote that when a book is turned into a movie it takes the imagination away from the person who reads the book. Each person has their own perspective on how they see the characters in the book and how the story line works. But I have to say, I wish all his books would turn into movies, they would all equally become cult classics.

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