Chuck Palahniuk reveals “Fight Club” comic book sequel details

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chuck Palahniuk has revealed new details of the Fight Club comic book sequel, Digital Spy said.

The writer has discussed the plot of the project for the first time since it was announced at Comic-Con International in July.

"The sequel will be told from the - at first - submerged perspective of Tyler Durden as he observes the day-to-day tedium of the narrator's life," he told Hustler (via The Cult).

"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.

"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 - go figure - Tyler re-emerges to terrorise their lives."

Palahniuk previously said that he had spoken to editors at DC Comics, Dark Horse and Marvel. It remains unclear which publisher will be releasing the book.

"My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd," he said in a recent interview with Concord Monitor.

"So I thought, 'Why not?' It's like storyboarding a movie. It's fun. It won't be published for a while, and we'll probably bring it out in instalments, rather than book form."

Fight Club was released in 1996 and adapted into an award-winning 1999 movie starring Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Edward Norton as Jack (the unnamed protagonist of the book) and Helena Bonham Carter as Marla.