Director David Fincher shot over 1,500 reels of film, more than three times the normal amount
Brad Pitt's character was originally going to recite a workable recipe for home-made explosives. In the interest of public safety, the filmmakers decided to substitute fictional, dud recipes for the real ones.
Author Chuck Palahniuk actually found the modified ending in the film to be better than the one he had written in the novel.
Although he refused to smoke in Rounders (1998) (his character played poker for cigarettes, but did not smoke), Edward Norton did smoke in this film.
During an exterior shot in an urban residential area, a man in one of the apartments above the working film crew got annoyed with the noise and threw a 40 oz. beer bottle at them. The bottle hit director of photography Jeff Cronenweth who was not seriously injured; the man was arrested shortly afterward.
The reverse-tracking shot out of the trash can, an elaborate digitally animated sequence, was the very last shot to be added to the film - as almost an afterthought by the director. It required so much processing time that it almost had to be spliced in "wet" - i.e., fresh from the lab - so that the film could be duplicated on schedule.
In the short scene when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.
During rehearsals Brad Pitt and Edward Norton found out that they both hated the new Volkswagen Beetle with a passion. In the film they are seen banging a Volkswagen Beetle with baseball bats. However, Pitt is quoted on the DVD commentary as saying he had a change of heart about the new VW Beetle.
One of Project Mayhem's acts of vandalism is the destruction of a display of Apple Macintosh computers. The explosion occurs at exactly 84 minutes into the film, an ironic reference to Apple's famous tribute to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" when they debuted the Macintosh during the 1984 Super Bowl.
The brown station wagon against which Edward Norton falls in his first fight with Brad Pitt is the same brown station wagon used in The Game (1997), in which Michael Douglas hid while James Rebhorn drove him to CRS headquarters. The car has a CRS sticker on the windshield.
Three detectives in the film are named Detective Andrew, Detective Kevin, and Detective Walker. Andrew Kevin Walker was the writer of the David Fincher film Se7en (1995) (Also starring Brad Pitt), and did some uncredited work on this movie's script.
As Tyler jumps into the red convertible outside of the airport a man can be heard yelling, 'Hey, that's my car.'
In Tyler Durden's house there is a Movieline magazine cover featuring 'Drew Barrymore' , a close friend of Edward Norton.
While Edward Norton is trying to convince Helena Bonham Carter to leave the city by bus, the crew arranged cinema signs to make references to other films the cast had been in, although only one is visible during the actual scene. Seven Years in Tibet (1997) (starring Brad Pitt) is visible, although the sign letters actually say "Seven Year In Tibe" as if the theatre didn't have the required letters. Other marquees (in the far background, and not visible) reportedly said The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) (starring Norton) and The Wings of the Dove (1997) (starring Carter).
The telephone number of the Paper Street Soap Company (as printed on the phone the Narrator uses to call the "1888" office building near the end of the movie) is (288) 555-1534. The Paper Street Soap Company's phone number as listed on Tyler's business card is (288) 555-0153. The narrator's boss' business card shows a phone number of (288) 555-0138. At the time of the film's release, area code 288 was "reserved for future use".
The "filing cabinet" apartment block that the Narrator lives in is called "Pierson Towers", and the motto is "a place to be somebody" which is the city motto for Wilmington, Delaware.
There really is a Paper Street in Wilmington, Delaware, but there's no street number 1537 (the numbers on that street don't go that high).
The typeface used for the titles and logo is named "Big Science".
Some of fake names used by the narrator in the self-help groups are names of characters in Planet of the Apes (1968), as well as classic roles played by Robert De Niro.
Cameo: [Kevin Scott Mack] Visual effects supervisor is one of the terrified passengers of the plummeting jet.
Cameo: [Edward Kowalczyk] Member of the band Live plays the waiter who serves the Narrator and Marla with the line, "Sir, anything you want is free of charge, sir."
In the press packages released for the movie, which came in the form of Ikea-esque catalogues, Edward Norton's character is referred to as "Jack".
The only remaining pink and white giant "fat soap" prop (appox. 12" x 10") featured in the movie can be seen briefly but clearly behind the character Warren Henley in a scene in the film Automatic (2001) as a framed piece of art.
In the closed captioning, whenever the Narrator speaks and is not seen, the closed caption begins with "Rupert:"
The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected, it was exchanged for what we see now: "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When those who had protested saw this they were even more outraged and wanted the original line back, but director David Fincher decided to keep the new line.
The movie's line "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club" was #27 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
The infamous 'soap slam on dish' shot required 41 takes. After the 40th take, director David Fincher realized that the actual soap was sliding out of frame and settled for a fake soap prop.
Starbucks pulled their name from the coffee shop destruction scene. They didn't mind the director placing their product throughout the film, but did not want their name to be destroyed in that scene. Therefore, when the gold globe crashes into the coffee shop, there is no company name shown on film.
Edward Norton lost 17-20 pounds for this role after having to beef up tremendously for his role as a Neo-Nazi skinhead in "American History X." Norton achieved this form by running, taking vitamins and just ignoring the on-set catering.
Chuck Palahniuk came up with the character of Tyler Durden years before he ever wrote his book. He got the idea after an encounter with a real life person named Tyler Lovelly whom he was seated next to on a plane.
Fox originally wanted someone with a name to play Marla after they decided not to go with Helena Bonham Carter. The only other name thrown in was Reese Witherspoon. But Fincher, Witherspoon, and the studio declined saying that she was too young, and Witherspoon said it was just too dark.
David Fincher took 12 takes of the stuntman rolling down the stairs when the narrator gets thrown down the stone steps in the parking lot by Tyler in their final fight, but the shot used in the movie is the very first take.
The name Tyler Durden comes from Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) and a former coworker of Palahniuk's who left under a sexual harassment cloud.
Chuck Palahniuk came up with the story after getting beaten up on a camping trip by some people who'd refused to turn down their loud radio in a neighboring campsite.
David Fincher had to receive separate funding for the complex "Fear Center" title sequence. In the DVD commentary, Fincher remarks that the studio told him "if the movie's good" they would allow him to do the very expensive introduction.
Edward Norton's apartment building, Pearson Towers, which he returns to at the beginning of the film to find his possessions strewn all over the sidewalk is actually Promenade Towers located at 123 South Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles. The apartment building's slogan in the movie is "A Place to be Somebody" while the actual apartment building's slogan is "A City in a City".
Marla Singer's phone number, 555-0134, is the same as Teddy's number in Memento (2000). It is also the same as the Hong Kong Restaurant in Harriet the Spy (1996), Eddie Alden's in Someone Like You... (2001) and a Mental institution in an episode of "Millennium" (1996/I).
After the copyright warning, there is another warning on the DVD. This warning is from Tyler Durden, and is only there for a second. "If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this is useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think everything you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned... Tyler"
David Fincher claimed in an interview in UK film magazine Empire, that there is a Starbucks coffee cup visible in every shot in the movie (see also The Game (1997)) .
When a Fight Club member sprays the priest with a hose, the camera briefly shakes. This happens because the cameraman couldn't keep himself from laughing.
The workprint for this film ran about 153 minutes.
When the Narrator is writing haiku poems at work and sending them to coworkers, the names on the email list include those of Production Assistants and other crew members.
The Narrator works at Federated Motor Corporation, in the Compliance and Liability division. FMC is located at 39210 North Pennfield Boulevard in Bradford (the state is not specified). His Manager's phone number is (288) 555-0138, and his fax number is (288) 555-0149, both non-existant area codes.
The term 'Paper Street' refers to a road or street that has been planned by city engineers but has yet to be constructed. A paper street is sometimes published in common street directories by accident, but does not yet exist.
Voted #4 in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time list (November 2005).
The burnt out car that Edward Norton's character is examining is a Lincoln Town Car.
Near the beginning of the film, a poster for the band 311 can be seen behind The Narrator's head, in the pawn shop scene with Marla.
Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) says she goes to support groups because "It's cheaper than a movie, and there's free coffee". In Margaret's Museum (1995) (starring Helena Bonham Carter), Kate Nelligan says she goes to funerals because it's cheaper than bingo, and there's free food.
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