Universal has recently announced they have picked up the film rights to Choke. No, this isnt a movie about snakes on a plane. Its about a guy who chokes. I know that doesnt sound so interesting, so lets have the guys at Cinematical sum it up for me:
Choke revolves around a man who scams folks out of their money by pretending to choke in restaurants; he uses the money to keep his overbearing mother in a nursing home. At the same time, he visits sexaholic meetings to meet women.
This sounds a lot like the Edward Norton character from Fight Club, and that wouldnt be too far of a stretch. Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fight Club and he wrote Choke too. The main characters seem to both be sociopaths.
They are getting Paul Bernbaum to do the screenplay, which strikes me as odd for the guy who did the screenplay for Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure. This seems far darker and twisted. But he did write the drama Hollywoodland. Not to be confused with Halloweentown (which he also wrote).
