Published way back in 1999, Chuck Palahniuk’s (Fight Club) novel Survivor had been optioned for feature film adaptation by 20th Century Fox the very same year, but the project ultimately ended up being shelved after the September 11th attacks. All these years later, Deadline reports this afternoon that Survivor is once again planning a flight onto the big screen.
Daniel Brown (Your Lucky Day) is writing and directing the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor that will begin shooting in Auckland, New Zealand early next year.
Deadline details in their exclusive report, “The film follows the final hours of Tender Branson — the last surviving member of a puritan cult — as he recounts his rise from anonymity to superstardom aboard a commercial airliner with no one left to fly it.”
The film will be produced by Ryan Rettig (Voyage of Time, Last Days in the Desert) and Miles David Romney (The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, Oscar-nominated Ninety-Five Senses) for Community Garden and financier V42, with Mel Turner and Axel Paton at Auckland-based Ground Control (Wolf Man, Heart Eyes).
Stay tuned for more on the Survivor movie adaptation as we learn it.
