Friday for All is a regular feature on FilmDrunk in which I post videos that are neither relevant nor newsworthy.  I’m a dick like that.

This video, which is apparently old, comes from the set of Fight Club, and depicts Ed Norton and Brad Pitt singing a song about penises.  It’s a lot less sexy than it sounds.  Anyway, according to the DVD producer, the bit didn’t make the DVD because Frankie Avalon is an a-hole.

"The Penis Song was something everyone wanted on the disc. Everyone, that is, except Frankie Avalon, who wasn’t amused by the parody of his song Venus. He promised to sue if we used it, so there you are."

Here I am indeed.  I cut the ass off this gorilla suit so I can wear it while I poop. 

Sorry, that was sort of a misleading headline. Actually, Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club, Choke, etc.) has a new book coming out, and they made this fake movie trailer (for "The Wizard of Ass") to promote it. It stars “Cassie Wright, star of ‘Chitty Chitty Gang Bang’ and ‘The Twilight Bone’.”

The book’s called Snuff, and I’m sure it’ll be a movie at some point. Here’s the rundown:

Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room.

Darn, I was hoping it’d be about tobacco, LOL!

I heard a rumor about a Fight Club musical awhile back, but, like Colin Hanks, it sounded retarded so I ignored it.

Sadly, the rumors were confirmed by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk in a recent interview with Collider.

[Palahniuk] confirmed that Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) will definitely be doing the music for the show!  He went on to say that David Fincher has been working on making “Fight Club” into a musical for some time now, and it really looks like it’s actually coming together. I then asked him if this was going to be some off Broadway show or would it be a big production. He said that 20th Century Fox was a big part of making it all happen and he thinks it’s going to be a big Broadway show. I think he said that Fox was actually paying for the show to get made.

Dude, what is this obsession with turning movies into musicals?  "Hey, that was a great movie, I think I’m gonna sing about it!"  THAT’S WHAT HOMELESS PEOPLE DO.

Making Fight Club a Broadway musical is like making a talking GI Joe doll that reads poetry about war.

FilmDrunkard BGavin sent me the hot tip on this interview with Choke director Clark Gregg in which he talks about the movie and plays a few clips.

I like how the interviewers use the ol’ splice-closeups-of-random-body-parts style of editing to make it seem more important.  You learn that in Intro to Indie Filmmaking 1 and 2: Originality Through Filming Peoples’ Hands and Feet.  It’s true, there’s nothing quite like seeing a knuckle up close to make you realize how important someone is.  I think that’s why the pope always makes people kiss his rings.  Or was that Huggy Bear? 

Collider had a batch of pictures from the production of Choke, an adaptation of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s second best novel. Take these pics with a grain of salt, because if history is any indication, once the movie comes out there will be many of these per second.

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.

Directed by first timer Clark Gregg from a screenplay by Gregg and Palahniuk, it stars Sam Rockwel, Anjelica Huston, Kelly McDonald, and the big guy is Brad William Henke – talk about a serial killer name.  Made on a $3.4 million dollar budget, it premieres at Sundance next month, but beyond that, it doesn’t have a release date set.

Hey, anyone else think it’s retarded that after Fight Club becomes a phenomenon, Palahniuk’s next movie adaptation still gets a first-time director (not that I think he’ll do a bad job) and a budget in the single digits? For comparison, Peter Jackson’s making The Lovely Bones for $70 million, and pretty much every fantasy kids book or graphic novel you’ve ever heard of gets the big budget treatment. I don’t get it.  It’s like every day, Jesus gives me new reasons to punch stuff.  

Also – Sam Rockwell is awesome, and a specialist when it comes to playing weirdos.  Thing about Hollywood is, you can tell someone’s really talented when they become well known despite being really ugly, or strange looking.  Other examples: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi.