Where to watch Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club is available to stream in ES on Netflix and Rakuten TV. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
An insomniac office worker meets a charismatic soap salesman who offers a radical escape from consumer culture. Together, they create an underground fighting group that spreads rapidly, drawing in frustrated men and pushing their rebellion toward increasingly dangerous consequences.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Holt McCallany, Eion Bailey, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, George Maguire, Eugenie Bondurant
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Trivia & production notes
- Fox purchased the film rights to Chuck Palahniuk's novel for just $10,000 after a studio executive listened to an audio recording of the script.
- David Fincher initially hesitated to direct Fight Club because of a negative experience making Alien 3 for Fox, the same studio producing this film.
- The script originally had no narration, but Fincher found it unsatisfying and had it rewritten to include the Narrator's voice-over.
- Brad Pitt voluntarily had his front teeth chipped by a dentist during filming so his character wouldn't have perfect teeth, and the chips were restored afterward.
- Edward Norton was contractually obligated to make a film for Paramount Pictures before he could accept the Fight Club role, an obligation he later fulfilled with The Italian Job in 2003.
- Janeane Garofalo accepted the role of Marla Singer but was dropped from the project because Edward Norton believed she was unsuitable for it, despite Fincher's initial choice being her.
- Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and director David Fincher collaborated with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to create five script revisions over the course of a year.
- Fincher deliberately preserved homoerotic overtones from the novel to make audiences uncomfortable and enhance the impact of the film's plot twist.
- The film's ending diverged from the novel by giving the Narrator redemption through rejecting Tyler Durden, whereas the book ends with the Narrator institutionalized.
- The cast trained in boxing, taekwondo, grappling, and soapmaking to prepare for their roles.
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