Chuck Palahniuk's works were adapted to the screen before, most notably in 1999's Fight Club, but it looks like another one of his literary efforts also will make the transition. It has just been revealed Palahniuk's fifth book Lullaby gets a big-screen adaptation.
The news comes from The Wrap. Andy Mingo, who directed a handful of shorts and the 2008 indie feature The Iconographer, directs and also potentially writes the screenplay with Palahniuk. Should the author get a writing credit, the Lullaby becomes the first film adaptation which he's involved in creatively.
Mingo already adapted Palahniuk's work before when he made Romance, a short film based on the author's story. Plans are to shoot Lullaby later this year, according to producer Josh Leake, while Mango wrote in a Facebook post he wants to host the production in Portland and eastern Oregon should the state legislature expand the Oregon Production Incentive Fund. If not, they will film in Louisiana.
A more personal effort than Palahniuk's other work, Lullaby centers on a newspaper reporter who believes "calling song," an African chant, could be a series of cases of sudden infant death syndrome which took his child. It was written as Palahniuk meditated on capital punishment for the man who murdered his dad.
In addition to Fight Club, Palahniuk's Choke was made into a feature in 2008 from director Clark Gregg. James Franco recently bought the rights to make Rant a film.
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