Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter. Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation.... Fincher was one of four directors the producers considered and hired him because of his enthusiasm for the film. Fincher developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause and The Graduate . Fincher intended Fight Club's violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising.
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| Release date: | September 10, 1999 |
| Directed by: | David Fincher |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 139 Minutes |
| Producer: | Art Linson, Ross Grayson Bell, Cean Chaffin |
| Editor: | James Haygood |
| Music by: | Dust Brothers, Michael Simpson, John King |
| Cinematography: | Jeff Cronenweth |
| Screenplay by: | Jim Uhls |
| Estimated budget: | $63,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Fight Club |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |