Clark Gregg, who is looking to make his directorial debut with the adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk that he wrote, has found his cast in Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston.
Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston for Choke
Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston will join up with Kelly Macdonald and Brad Henke for Choke, a New York Times best-seller from the guy who also penned Fight Club.
Choke is a black comedy that follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor and runs a con scheme that involves deliberately choking in restaurants and attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother's (Huston) care at a private mental hospital.
He is forced to address his intimacy issues when he falls in love with his mother's doctor and discovers that he is unable to perform with the one woman he actually likes.
Though Clark Gregg has spent most of his time in front of the camera as an actor, he had wanted to adapt (and direct) a book for years.
"It's a tricky adaptation because like a lot of Chuck's work, it operates in a heightened satirical, dark world, yet this one is one of his black romantic comedies, so getting the tone right took me some time," Gregg said.
Principle photography for Choke will begin this week in New Jersey.
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