Chuck Palahniuk's Novel SURVIVOR Set to Get Feature Film Adaptation
Daniel Brown (Your Lucky Day) has signed on to direct a feature adaptation of Survivor, the satirical 1999 novel from Fight Club‘s Chuck Palahniuk.
Brown wrote the script for the film. Set to shoot in Auckland, New Zealand in early 2026, the film follows the final hours of Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a puritan cult, as he recounts his rise from anonymity to superstardom aboard a commercial airliner with no one left to fly it.
The film will be produced by Ryan Rettig (Voyage of Time, Last Days in the Desert) and Miles David Romney (The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, Oscar-nominated Ninety-Five Senses) for Community Garden and financier V42, with Mel Turner and Axel Paton at Auckland-based Ground Control (Wolf Man, Heart Eyes).
Survivor gets off the ground here following multiple failed attempts at mounting an adaptation. 20th Century Fox optioned Palahniuk’s novel in the year of its publication, enlisting Jake Paltrow to adapt the screenplay, but shelved the project after 9/11 due to the fact that the story involves an airplane hijacker.
Francis Lawrence, the filmmaker behind The Long Walk and The Hunger Games franchise, also previously eyed a feature take.
I haven’t read this book, but I am a fan of Fight Club, and this premise is intriguing. I look forward to seeing what unfolds in this story.
via: Deadline