Prepare To Choke In August 2008

Chuck Palahniuk fans rejoice!

Fox Searchlight, who just picked up the rights to Clark Gregg's big screen adaptation of Choke for $5 Million, has announced that the film will hit theaters on:

August 1st 2008

Yeah, I know, seven months is a long time to wait. But hey, look on the bright side, it's getting a release by Fox Searchlight. That almost guarantees that the film will platform into your neck of the woods sooner or later.

Directed by: Clark GreggWritten by: Clark Gregg, adapted from the novel by Chuck PalahniukCast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad Henke, Clark GreggPlot Synopsis: Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private mental hospital by working days as a historical reenactor. At night he runs a scam where he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor must enlist the aid of his best friend, Denny, a recovering chronic masturbator, and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve this mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.