Something from the Projection Booth...
They Found Ross Bell?!
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
1
Yes, cassettes!
2
This was in 1997.
Hey another impromptu "Praise Chuck": I love how, in Damned, Maddy says "I can recognize an erection" when she sees Archer's erection (because he sucked the giant clitoris of Psezpolnica) and in Doomed (the next book, but which takes place before Damned) Maddy tells she mistook her grandfather's erect penis for poop in the toilet's glory hole.
I wanna get a collection of short stories. Which one do you think I should get first?
1. Make Something Up
2. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
3. Jesus' Son: Stories
4. Miles from Nowhere