It looks like "Fight Club" is going to be getting a sequel of sorts after a long period of dormancy. The 1996 novel from Chuck Palahniuk and subsequent 1999 film from David Fincher became a cult hit among the masses in recent years. However, the sequel will not be a film or novel, but instead it will take place on the comic book page. The sequel is set up at Dark Horse Comics as a maxiseries to be written by Palahniuk and illustrated by Cameron Stewart. Both Fincher and Palahniuk will be on a panel this weekend at San Diego Comic Con to discuss the new venture in front of thousands of rabid fans.
The story about an underground bare-knuckle fighting group and its anarchic ideas captured the imagination of a generation of readers and film fans. "Fight Club 2" is set to take place alternately in the both the future and the past and picks up a decade after the ending of the original book. This time around, the same unnamed protagonist from the first is married to Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter in the film) and has a nine-year-old son named Junior. Unfortunately the narrator is failing his son just like his father failed him. The other characters from the first book will be brought back to life, as will "Project Mayhem."
"He tries to go back and reclaim that phase of his life, and is just a pathetic failure," Palahniuk told USA Today. "He's not that person anymore. But beyond that, it's what the organization has grown into in his absence and what he's pulled back into," says Palahniuk. The author decided on the comic book format after getting involved in the Portland, Oregon comic book community scene.
The first installment was "such a tirade against fathers-everything I had thought my father had not done combined with everything my peers were griping about their fathers," Palahniuk said. "Now to find myself at the age that my father was when I was trashing him made me want to revisit it from the father's perspective and see if things were any better and why it repeats like that," added the author.
The built-in audience for the 10-issue series will most definitely get in on this new chapter in the saga of the "Fight Club" characters. The crisis of middle age will weigh heavily on this new direction for the story. "Fight Club 2" will be available in comic book form in May 2015.
