Palahniuk's Choke, the trailer for which is below, is directed by Clark Gregg and, apart from generating interest from fans of the novel, is also getting buzz from a potential contribution to the film's soundtrack.
Fight Club author Palahniuk, in an interview with BBC 6Music, claimed that Radiohead had written much of the ambient music for the film. Radiohead themselves are admitting only allowing the use of the track Reckoner from their recent album In Rainbows.
Palahniuk, who gained musical credibility when the Pixies' Where is My Mind was used in the last scene of Fight Club, told the Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show:
“Clark Gregg, who directed the movie version of Choke which comes out in November, he knew that I’d written Choke while listening to [Radiohead’s 1993 debut album] Pablo Honey, with Creep, over and over and over.
“So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits.
“Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead’“
When confronted with the denial from Radiohead's management, Palahniuk told the BBC that:
“It’s the incidental music and I also thought it was the closing credits, sort of like the equivalent of the Pixies song in Fight Club - and Clarke really wanted to end the movie on a downbeat, kinda like The Graduate, where they’re finally together and on the bus and the future’s not entirely bright at that point. I know Clark was looking for a very downbeat, mellow sort of song.”
He also added that he had heard the music, "and it is terrific, I really love everything about the movie, it is as good as Fight Club, and the romance is much more predominant."
I'm really looking forward to this film. I loved the book and I loved Fight Club. I'm also quite fond of Radiohead, so fingers crossed...
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