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Fight Club writer details comic book sequel

Chuck Palahniuk pens Tyler Durden in failed marriage.

Tyler... in unhappy marriage to Marla in Fight Club sequel comics (Copyright: 20th Century Fox)

Chuck Palahniuk, the writer of 'Fight Club', has revealed details of the sequel to his 1996 novel.

He announced in the summer that he was planning to follow up the book with a comic series, and it appears that its protagonist Tyler Durden has found himself in an unhappy marriage with Marla Singer.

“The sequel will be told from the – at first – submerged perspective of Tyler Durden as he observes the day-to-day tedium of the narrator’s life,” Palahniuk told Hustler magazine.

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“Because 20th Century Fox created the convention of calling the protagonist Jack, I’m calling him Cornelius. He’s living a compromised life with a failing marriage, unsure about his passion for his wife. The typical midlife bullsh*t.

“Likewise, Marla is unsatisfied and dreams of accessing the wild man she’d once fallen in love with.

“She tampers with the small pharmacy of drugs that her husband needs to suppress Tyler, and – go figure – Tyler re-emerges to terrorise their lives.”

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He added that the sequel will be delivered over several issues, rather than in a single book.

The 1999 film of the book starred Ed Norton as the story's narrator and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, with Helena Bonham Carter as Marla.

In the book and the film, the chaotic Durden runs underground fighting clubs, but uses them as a front for an anarchic terrorist organisation.

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