"Haunted" Movie Rights optioned

That sounds like they're turning it into a Saw-type deal...

What does, "Ex-Drummer" mean?

"Ex-Drummer is a movie, written and directed by Koen Mortier:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0812243/

Oh. Never heard of it, but since I've never heard of this guy, I'm not expecting much.

If they're gonna toss it to whoever wants to take it, they should have fun with it...maybe have a different director for each short story to mix things up.

Yeah, I have never heard of this guy either... I think "Haunted" will be pretty hard to do as a film, at least well. It would be easy to do poorly. The fact that some random dude that no one has ever heard is the guy who optioned it, with the intent to adapt and direct himself, is not all that promising...

And how can Haunted be made into a single 120 minute movie anyway?

It's gonna be a horrorfest! And instead of telling the stories, each character will just die via sulfur pits, pool vacuums, etc. It'll be so scurry! And it will ruin future movie prospects for Palahniuk.

Ex-Drummer doesnt look that bad

This belongs in "lol shrooms".

I fundamentally disagree with the notion that because the guy who is writing and directing it hasn't made it to the mainstream yet means that the movie is going to automatically be bad. I actually think Haunted is the best of Palahniuk's books to go to someone who can take big risks with. If this was produced by a company like Fox or Sony, I'd be nervous, though, but since it's an independent production company and this is their first film, I expect it to be pretty over the top, which is exactly what Haunted needs. Also, the idea of it being Saw-esque isn't a bad idea.

There's needs to be an outing of Haunted lovers. We're all in the closet for some reason.

I LOVED HAUNTED AND I AM NOT ASHAMED.

Because you should be in the closet. It is far and away Chuck's worst book.

That said, I'm interested to see the movie...my expectations are low, due to my lack of enthusiasm for the book, so it'd have to be a pretty shitty movie to disappoint me.

Have you read Snuff yet?

Haunted was my favorite as well, I loved the way it was filled with the actually story as well as the writers short stories and the poems.

I'll be the first to admit some of the main story was weak, and entire chapters of it should have been completely redone, but the short stories were perfect (except maybe civil twilight, needed work) and it came together well in the end.

he didn't say Haunted was Chuck's best book. he said it was the best one to go to a director that can take chances with a book. Two vastly different things.

Yeah...but that was written on a bet, so I try to keep things in perspective.

Wow, you should be a politician, taking my words out of context like that. I said it's the best book of Palahniuk's to take a risk on, not Chuck's best book. I think everything else he's done either doesn't need to be risky or edgy to be good, but Haunted needs to be both risky and edgy to be worth watching, and you're not going to get risky or edgy from someone who has expectations weighing him down.

Ex-Drummer doesn't look like it would have been too bad, judging from the trailer, anyway. But what do I know?

I really dug Haunted. I'm excited for this. I think it's great that some random dude who people say is all dark and shit picked it up.

Wasn't Clark Gregg a "random dude" before he picked up Choke? Or maybe I was just out of the loop.

I dunno. I look forward to Haunted anyway. And hopefully I won't have to pay $11.75 to see this one is a fucking Sundance theatre...

Clark Gregg was mostly an actor before Choke, I believe.

Would anyone here rather it be directed by Stephen Spielberg?

I don't think Haunted was his best work. It was a bit sloppy. It bugged me that all the characters had the same voice even in the stories they were supposed to have written. I still enjoyed it immensely. We'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.

I still haven't seen Choke. Is it any good? The trailer didn't look like it was going to do the book justice.

I thought it was blah compared to what it should have been, but its ok by other movie standards.

Well, maybe a bit late for a comment here, but what the hell...

I think as a director Koen Mortier is as good as a director as it gets for a Haunted movie that stays true to the gruesome, cruel and graphic events happening. Because I have seen "Ex Drummer" and the movie itself is just that. Maybe not to an extent like in Haunted, but close. There are scenes which you see that are brutal (both mentally and physical) which you would never see in a big budget film that wants to have big sales (like crude violence, graphic sex scenes and a cut-off dick). Hence Mortier never got any funding from Belgian studios, but had to get international money for the project. By the way, "Ex Drummer" was also a novel adaption of a book that was deemed not to be realisable on film.

So, all in all doesn't sound too bad regarding these facts, does it?

I'd really like to see a film adaptation to it.

It's easy to say it my favorite Chuck Palahniuk, and I think people kind of don't see around the symbolism of its shock value. But if only somebody in the film industry could portray it well enough.

At least somebody is willing to give it a shot fuck...

I really did not wanna see this book movie-fied. Perhaps it'll come out really well and I'll be surprised, but I kinda doubt that.
I love Haunted.