Chuck Palahniuk's novel HAUNTED is optioned!

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Chuck Palahniuk's book HAUNTED has become the first novel optioned by Former ICM lit agentBrian Levy's new production company New School Media. Koen Mortier, a guy I'm completely unaware of... has been hired to write and direct. According to Variety, he helmed EX-DRUMMER, a small time drama that played at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.

"Haunted" revolves around a group of characters who answer an ad for a writers retreat and unwittingly end up competing in a "Survivor"-like scenario, where the host withholds heat, power and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show or film that they expect will be made from their plight.

Lost, LORD OF THE FLIES... meets reality t.v. I'm actually surprised we haven't seen this novel or idea picked up sooner than this. Though I haven't read the novel, I'm just going off the plot synopsis above, of course with Palahniuk's with unique writing style and voice it won't be as cliche as I made out with my tagline. FIGHT CLUB, one of the defining masterpieces of 90's cinema was based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel. The only other of his nine novels adapted for screen is CHOKE which was quietly released in the U.S. at the end of last month... and will open in the U.K. next month starring Sam Rockwell, Angelica Huston from actor/director Clark Gregg.