‘Fight Club’ Sequel Gets Release Date

Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club, which was adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, will soon be getting a sequel as a 10-issue comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics.

The series will pick up ten years after the events of the novel, as well as take place in the past. It will follow the book’s unnamed narrator, who is now married to Marla Singer and has a troubled relationship with his 9-year-old son named Junior.

Readers will discover Tyler Durden’s origins. “Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that’s popped into [the narrator’s] mind,” Palahniuk stated

Other characters from the novel will appear, and the narrator will find himself still involved with Project Mayhem, including a situation where he must save his son’s life.  In the comic series the narrator will attend fight club once more. “He tries to go back and reclaim that phase of his life, and is just a pathetic failure,” Palahniuk explains. “He’s not that person anymore. But beyond that, it’s what the organization has grown into in his absence and what he’s pulled back into.”

The series will be released in May 2015 and will be illustrated by Cameron Stewart.