Brad Pitt and Edward Norton had a Fight Club reunion at the World Cup This Week
It’s not the first time we’ve seen Tyler Durden and Tyler Durden out in public, as the pair have invoked fond memories of their shared Fight Club role at events over the years. The movie’s impact is indelible, as ongoing social media jokes about this pairing proves. It’s easy to forget that Fight Club was initially a rather notorious flop, with a budget of $63 million and a $37M gross at the US box office. Executives at 20th Century Fox were at their wits’ end, unable to understand how they had failed so spectacularly after managing to reunite the director and lead actor of Seven, and adding, in Norton, one of the best actors of his generation. Some blamed the marketing campaign and trailers, which presented the film as an action movie packed with street fights. That attracted an audience that didn’t mesh with the transgressive, dark, satirical, and anti-capitalist tone with which Fincher—drawing on Chuck Palahniuk’s original novel—had imbued his feature film. Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, center, and Colin Farrell, sitting, watch the United …








