“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

 “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden

 

Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with a mysterious woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).

Producer Laura Ziskin of Fox 2000 Pictures optioned Palahniuk's book, and Jim Uhls was engaged to create the screenplay. Because of his love for the subject, Fincher was chosen. Together with Uhls, he wrote the script and sought feedback from the cast and others in the film business. In and around Los Angeles, it was recorded from July to December of 1998. He and the cast linked the movie, which had a theme of struggle between Generation X and the advertising value system, to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967).