James Franco Making "Fight Club" Author's "Rant" Into Movie

James Franco has bought the rights to Chuck Palahniuk's "Rant."

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You have to admit, James Franco does not fuck with anything boring or basic these days. 

A day after the trailer dropped for his weird, new, comedy web series, comes news that Franco has optioned the rights to Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, the insane, 2007 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club

Deadline reports that Franco himself is eyeing the title role of Buster "Rant" Casey.  

If you've read the book, you know it's hard to imagine this mind-bending work of insanity (did I mention it was kind of insane?) being made into a movie, but then again, people who read Fight Club definitely said the same thing. 

Here's a synopsis from a Palahniuk site:


Buster “Rant” Casey uncovers a huge wealth that turns his tiny rural town on its head. He needs to get out of there.  So he becomes obsessed with getting bitten by anything venomous—snakes, spiders, and whatever else he can find. Loving the side effect that is a big ol’ erection, he uses it to get an early diploma and a nice fat check to get him out of town.


Rant arrives in the city which the reader discovers is the opposite of a utopian society. All the residents take on their appropriate character of respectable Daytimers and oppressed Nighttimers—all due to a strictly enforced curfew.


A new Nighttimer, Rant tries to fit in with the “Party Crashers”, a group of demolition derby-ers who crash into other cars adorned with that night’s “flag”. A mattress on top of the car, words written on the rear windshield. As Rant becomes more entwined in the life of the “Party Crashers” he meets and falls in love with Echo Lawrence. He also starts a nationwide rabies epidemic that causes everyone who is infected to be shot and killed on the spot.


Rant comes from the point of view of people who knew Rant Casey. Through changes in space and time, you find out that Rant may be present in more than one person, could possibly be dead, and may have tried to kill or marry his mother.

Franco and producer Vince Jolivette reportedly want Pamela Romanowsky (Adderall Diaries) to write the script. 

[Via Deadline]

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