How was Fight Club optioned to a movie?
20th Century Fox bought the rights to Fight Club in 1996. Around that same time, director David Fincher got his hands on the book and quickly fell in love with it. He then found out that Fox already owned an option on the book and set upon doing his best to convince producer Laura Ziskin that he was the director for this book. Read more about Fincher’s journey to get Fight Club to the big screen here.