A sequel to Fight Club is finally being made, but not as a novel or a movie.
Chuck Palahniuk, author of the 1996 book from which David Fincher adapted the 1999 film, is working on the sequel, called Fight Club 2, to be published as a 10-issue comic book series from Dark Horse Comics, according to Rolling Stone. The story will be illustrated by Cameron Stewart and published May 2015.
Fight Club 2 will take place 10 years after the events of the first book, and has the unnamed narrator, who is now married to Marla Singer, facing trouble raising his nine-year-old son named Junior. Palahniuk said Tyler Durden will also be returning, and promised to explore the true origins of the character.
"Tyler is something that may have been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into [the narrator's] mind."
The first news of the sequel was unintentionally revealed by Palahniuk last year at New York Comic Con, USA Today reported.
"I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones," he said. "Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honor my word."
The series will also feature the return of other characters from the book, including Project Mayhem, which started out as organized fights in a basement and evolved into a movement of anarchy. The group is shown to still have a grip on the narrator.
"He tries to go back and reclaim that phase of his life, and is just a pathetic failure," Palahniuk said. "He's not that person anymore. But beyond that, it's what the organization has grown into in his absence and what he's pulled back into."
He added that while the first Fight Club was written as a criticism of fathers, the sequel will tell a similar story from a father's point of view, USA Today reported.
"Now to find myself at the age that my father was when I was trashing him made me want to revisit it from the father's perspective and see if things were any better and why it repeats like that," he said.
Palahniuk will appear with Fincher on a panel to discuss Fight Club on Saturday at this year's San Diego Comic Con.
