Multiple Chuck Palahniuk novels set to hit the big screen

Let's call a spade a spade: Chuck Palahniuk is America's weirdest bestselling author. Miraculously, his often off-putting and out-there novels keep making the leap from the page to the multiplexes. Choke, Palahniuk's tale of a sex-addicted charlatan starring Sam Rockwell, hits theaters Sept. 26. And Palahinuk himself has just let it slip that casting is underway for another one of his novels, Lullaby.

Lullaby is the supernatural story of a poem that kills whomever a) listens to it or b) even thinks about it. Basically, it's The Ring without the evil pre-teen and Naomi Watts. Scandinavian director allegedly named something like "Ulfer Jansen," affectionately dubbed by Palahniuk in an interview as the "Swedish David Fincher," has been tapped to direct. (Point of fact: Palahniuk pronounced his name with the proper Swedish inflections, and the interviewer did not ask for correct spelling, so the whole thing could just be a gag on the part of the Fight Club author.) Get that?

But Lullaby isn't the only Palahniuk adaptation in production. Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) is attached to direct Survivor, and Palahniuk's official website says Rant has just been optioned. But if Lullaby is already casting, it's probably a safe bet to hit theaters next.

Don't expect all of Palahniuk novels to turn into movies, though. For example, Snuff (the story of a porn star aiming to break the world record by having sex with 600 men on camera) sounds like it'd be a particularly hard sell, in a manner of speaking.

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