Has time and taste finally caught up with Chuck Palahniuk and his "unfilmable" books? The film rights to virtually everything he's written have been snagged by somebody.
And though the religious suicide-cult book Survivor looks like it might be first to get to the screen with the director of I Am Legend at the helm, it's in a bit of a race.
"Lullaby looks like it might be next," says Palahniuk of his book about an African death chant that turns out to be the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. "The option was bought this year and they say they've signed an Academy Award-winning actor as the male lead. But they won't tell me who.
And then there's Diary, a story of a Byzantine multi-generational murder plot on a resort island. "It's been in development for four years now, by an Icelandic producer -- I can never say his name (Heidrun Reshoft) -- who made Portrait Of A Lady with Michelle Pfeiffer.
"Haunted and Rant, we just optioned this spring."
Palahniuk says he has mixed feelings about his work making it to the screen.
After all, he'd sold fewer than 10,000 copies of Fight Club before Edward Norton and Brad Pitt brought it to life. As for Choke, he collaborated extensively with director Clark Gregg. "There's very little he's done that I've objected to.
"But I really have no control (over the movies). The only thing I can control is the next book, you can't control anything but the thing you work on."
