Movie Trailer - The Long-Awaited Big Screen Version of Chuck Palahniuk's 'Choke'

The first official trailer for the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation, Choke, courtesy of MTV, which used to play music videos. I'm sure you've heard of that. Anyway, the trailer makes the movie look pretty damn cool, and anything with a spotlight on the great Sam Rockwell gets a little more credit around these parts. He plays a sex addict named Victor in Choke, and he has an unusual way of making money. He fakes choking in restaurants so that rich diners feel like helping out the poor guy after they "save his life." But then he keeps the ruse going, constantly sending letters to the poor saps he's duped complaining about his own fictional financial troubles. The money's put to good use, though: His mother (Anjelica Huston) is slowly losing touch with reality and that's how Victor pays the hospital bills.

September 26th is the day Choke arrives in theaters. One suspects we'd all rather it be sooner.

Comments

[Will]

It's good to see that Hollywood is getting over their Palahniuk phobias. I mean, wasn't Fight Club over ten years ago? This guy has a wealth of great subversive, well written novels ripe to be brought to the big screen, and producers don't want to touch them. Like America doesn't have the appetite for complex cinema?

I know! More Eddie Murphy! Big Eddie meets little Eddie meets Eddie from another dimension!

Message to producers everywhere: I know you saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom over the weekend, and where you will never get to work with Spielberg and Lucas, you too can take the complex ideas that were introduced there and turn them into a goldmine. Imagine this: Big Eddie Murphy and Small Eddie Murphy meet up with Donkey Eddie Murphy. We could even throw Grand-ma-ma Eddie Murphy in for good measure. All aforementioned characters journey to a distant land where they discover 7 Eddie Murphy statues. They bring the statues to the Guru Pitka who tells them that the answers they seek can be found at the local amusement park. Our heros place the statues inside the gravitron ride, and when the operator turns it on, the seven statues become one, revealing Inter Dimensional Eddie: A character so powerful that he destroys all the other Eddie's and steals their girlfriends...Well, I think they are "girls...".

[JMK]

Incredibly, that pitch was STILL easier to comprehend than what went on in "Norbit"... :P

[John Hoffman]

This looks good. Choke wasn't my favorite Palahniuk book, but with Sam Rockwell as the lead, this looks VERY promising.