CHOKE poster!
Can the movie survive Fight Club comparisons, or are they inevitable and unavoidable with this adaptation?
Choke - only the second movie adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel (the first being Fight Club) is expected to get a theatrical release in September after impressing Fox Searchlight enough at the Sundance Film Festival to get a distribution deal. Here's our first look at the movie's poster. I haven't read much Palahniuk but this poster certainly carrys the imagery of the covers of his novels. I like it... Sam Rockwell leads as a sex-addicted con-man who pays for his mothers (Angelica Huston) hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who save him from (intentionally) choking to death. Kelly MacDonald also co-stars. Comparing the movie to Fight Club is likely to only ever lead to unfavourable reviews for Choke and it would certainly be unfair for actor turned writer/director Clark Gregg who makes his directorial debut here. Though comparisons to Fight Club might be difficult to avoid...
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