Some big news comes in this morning regarding future adaptations of popular Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke) novels, one that might interest B-D readers. What if a song turned you into a serial killer? That's the premise of Lulaby, the latest Palahniuk story being adapted to the big screen. Inside you can read about the film, which apparently already has a director attached to get behind the camera.
This weekend JoBlo scored a pretty juicy scoop from popular author Chuck Palahniuk, who is out doing press for the latest adaptation of one of his books, CHOKE, which hits theaters September 26th.
"LULLABY and SURVIVOR are the next to Palahniuk films going into production," the website reports. "a Swedish director is doing LULLABY. He told me his name, but pronounced in with the proper Swedish inflections, so I know what it sounds like but not how it reads. Ulfer Jansen is the best way I can translate it, and Chuck said he's done a lot of commercials and music videos, but this is his first feature."
JoBlo reports that Palahniuk described him has "the Swedish David Fincher."
Here's the synopsis: Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this investigation he discovers an ominous thread: the presence at the death scenes of the anthology Poems and Rhymes Around the World, all opened to the page where there appears an African chant, or "culling song." This song turns out to be lethal when spoken or even thought in anyone's direction - and once it lodges in Streator's brain he finds himself becoming an involuntary serial killer. So he teams up with a real estate broker, one Helen Hoover Boyle -- who specializes in selling haunted (or "distressed") houses (wonderfully high turnover), and who lost a child to the culling song years before -- for a cross-country odyssey to remove all copies of the book from libraries, lest this deadly verbal virus spread and wipe out human life. Accompanying them on this road trip are Helen's assistant, Mona Sabbat, an exquisitely earnest Wiccan, and her sardonic ecoterrorist boyfriend Oyster, who is running a scam involving fake liability claims and business blackmail. Welcome to the new nuclear family.
I suggest reading Lullaby for sure! Although it does have maybe the slightest tinge of Cell, which I enjoyed, it surpasses Cell in premise and plot. Its certainly a little more magical! Check it out, its worth the read.
And Francis Lawrence (I am Lengend, Constantine) is directing "Survivor"... Hopefully he'll actually deliver the goods this time and stay closer to the darker elements of the source material unlike the "happy ending, humanity survives" ending he stuck on "I am Lenged".
Anything Chuck Palahniuk does is amazing. "Lullaby" isn't violent at all if I remember correctly. Basically you just die, like SIDS. For a real gorefest they need to make a film version of "Haunted". That would be badass!
I got really excited when I first heard about this.
that was almost a year ago by the way.
none of this means its actually going into production. Francis Lawrance has been talking about a Survivor adaptation ever since Constantine and Jesse Peyronel has been trying to make Invisible Monsters for years.
don't get any of your hopes up. It could still be a year or years before we see a Lulluby film.
how is this in ANY way related to Cell?! Did you tards even read the story?
Anyhow this could make a good film but I think Survivor is going to be the better of the two, film wise.
I don't want Francis Lawrence going anywhere near Survivor. Besides, I thought he was set to further tarnish Matheson's masterpiece with a 'Legend' prequel.
I agree with A. Bet DeCretin -- Haunted could make an awesome movie. I'd rather see that before an adaptation of Lullaby any day. Still, if this happens, and is done right, it'll be pretty damned sweet.
OOOookaay. Look, you know I love all you guys. But you can't have a horror movie called Lullaby. It's like having a chick-flick called Cornhole. Change the name and I'm good to go with this film.
coldblood, that's the name of the novel, and it's a novel by Chuck motherf*cking Palahniuk! The man is a genius, the novel is really good (not one of his best, "Snuff" and "Haunted" I would be much more thrilled to see), have some faith. Why the hell would they change the name?
TheDeadMayTasteBad; I didn't say that Chuck wasn't a genius. I'm just saying that name just doesn't work. Sometimes great novels needs a better title. Example: the movie Blade Runner is based off a book called Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep? Isn't Blade Runner a better title? Snuff and Haunted are great book and movie titles. Sorry buddy; Chuck is still the man and his books are great, but having Lullaby as a title blows.
It would be SOO ironic if they made a Haunted movie.
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