What we've been waiting for

Choke

This is a film we have been waiting for, it's taken its time as various people have dropped and picked up the project but at long last its here.

Based upon the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name 'Choke' tells the story of Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor 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 and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

The novel itself is one of the Chuck's best, and that's saying something for the man who wrote 'Fight Club'.

Don't go expecting to see anything like David Fincher's screen adaption of 'Fight Club'. 'Choke' is a far cry from the world of Tyler Durden & Marla Singer, yet being that it's all bassed around the genius work of Chuck Palahniuk there is sure to be an unmistakable sense of familiarity.

As great as the cast for 'Fight Club' was Sam Rockwell appears to be perfectly cast as Victor Mancini.

Pretty much all of Chuck's work are set for movie adaption's, it's just a shame that they'll never be able to make 'Survivor'.

The Biffy Clyro song 'Joy.Discovery.Invention'and the Panic! at the Disco song 'Build God, Then we'll talk & The Scare song 'If I'm choking, make a scene' are each named after a phrase in Choke.