Quentin Tarantino's Fight Club

IIRC, one of the producers the film rights for the novel Fight Club were pitched to was the guy (Bender i think?) who produces all of Tarantino's movies.
What if he bought the rights then forwarded the concept to his most famous client, who also takes interest in it?
Would Edward Norton and Brad Pitt still star? Who else might QT want to cast? Would the movie still end up as memorable?
Please discuss.
 
Well, I could see it leading Tarantino into action films earlier, a genre he didn't really step into until Kill Bill (although one which he now seems very comfortable in).
The movie would most likely be a lot grittier, but would be equall non-linear. Uma Thurmond as Marla Singer? Not sure about Durden or the Narrator, through.
 
Tarantino only adapts movie genre conventions and as far as I am concerned he has never adapted an existing story, sure existing movies but he has never done flat out remakes or any of the kind, so I don't see why he would be interested in Fight Club, doesn't appeal to his style (movies about movies).

But if he did we would have 2 and a half hours of dialogue, a few action scenes that somehow would reference previous violent cinema, something exploitative, verbal battles, pop culture references by the drove and most of the book's themes would be lost in the Tarantino style.

That's it, Tarantino celebrates commercial kitsch culture that Fight Club so crushingly rejects, so if he did do Fight Club it would be a very different beast and really I think it would be known as one of the least successful Tarantino efforts.

Fight Club wouldn't be anything special if Tarantino had done it, love the guy, but it's good he doesn't adapt stories.
 
Well, I could see it leading Tarantino into action films earlier, a genre he didn't really step into until Kill Bill (although one which he now seems very comfortable in).
The movie would most likely be a lot grittier, but would be equall non-linear. Uma Thurmond as Marla Singer? Not sure about Durden or the Narrator, through.

Noooooo!

Fight Club
is undoubtedly the movie to feature the absolutely finest performance by H. H. Asquith's great-granddaughter!
 
But the movie was much more of a tribute to blaxploitation (Pam Grier was in it for that reason) than anything else. Jackie Brown is also an anomaly in Tarantino's body of work, he hasn't done that kind of movie again, and he hadn't done something like it before. I think it just doesn't appeal to him to try to stick to a story, and I still can't see why he would be interested in Fight Club, hell I think he'd much more likely to have accepted Joe Eszterhas' Showgirls script than write something based on Fight Club.

And if he actually had done Fight Club, as I said, it wouldn't be much like the book, it would be an interesting failure, but a failure nonetheless.
 
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