When Fox 2000 was trying to get traction for the Fight Club project, producer Ross Bell whittled the book down to a short script. He hired voice actors and produced an audio version of the story. This he recorded on cassette tapes1 and sent to talent who might be interested. His reasoning was that people in Los Angeles spent so much time in their cars that they’d pop in the cassette and give it a listen.2
Here’s more backstory if you care to give it a listen…
My Special Thanks to The Projection Booth Podcast
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Yes, cassettes!
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This was in 1997.
There was a moment during your first Joe Rogan interview when Joe talked about the feeling of accomplishment of seeing your book in print and holding a physical copy for the first time. And I think you went beyond that and mentioned an even greater glory of having something you've written be echoed in the culture. Like the line "The first rule of fight club is..."
That moment deflated me. There's no hope for me to ever create a line that will be echoed like that. The best I have to hope for is the physical book haha
Hey Chuck, if you were stuck on a deserted island and had to choose between the works of Ira Levin or Amy Hempel, who would you go with? (No pressure)
P.S. is the writing workshop/submission still going ahead on LitReactor at some point in the future?