Today’s trailer is for ‘Choke’, an adaptation of a bleakly funny Chuck Palahniuk novel (Palahniuk also wrote ‘Fight Club’). Written and directed by Clark Gregg, it looks like it has retained the same dark and deadpan humour of Palahniuk’s writing. I remember when reading the novel that I thought some of the more outlandish and colourful moments of the story might be hard to adapt to film, but it appears Gregg has embraced them wholeheartedly and run with it – the end result will be very intriguing.
And here’s an interview with Clark Gregg, a member of ‘That Guy’ pantheon (you know, where you see the dude and go “I know That Guy from something!”) on the Sundance Channel’s ‘Meet The Filmmakers’ series: