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Update: Radiohead NOT scoring Palahniuk's 'Choke'
(posted by Stuart Oldham)
In an interview with BBC 6 Music, 'Fight Club' author Chuck Palahniuk revealed that Radiohead would be contributing music to the forthcoming adaptation of his book, "Choke."
The film, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, has already played at Sundance and will be released this fall via Fox Searchlight.
"Clark Gregg (director) knew that I’d written Choke while listening to Radiohead’s Pablo Honey, with "Creep," over and over and over," Palahniuk said.
"So he (Gregg) got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits. Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead."
The Oxford quintet are no strangers to movie soundtracks (Vanilla Sky, Romeo and Juliet and A Scanner Darkly) yet only guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood has actually scored a film. (Paul Thomas Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood')
'Choke' will be released in the U.S. on September 26.
UPDATE: It appears that Mr. Palahniuk misspoke about the project. Radiohead will NOT be scoring the film, according to music supervisors from 'Choke.' Instead, the band's song 'Reckoner' from In Rainbows will be played over the credits.

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Posted by: jamie | August 12, 2008 at 11:26 PM