You already know the first rule…
That’s the thing about Fight Club. It’s pop culture influence is so strong, you can’t mention the phrase “the first rule” without thinking about the flick.
Fight Club came out in 1999, three years following Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. The movie bombed at the box office but then spent the next decade quietly become one of the most important films ever made.
Director David Fincher shot the movie across 138 days and 1,500 rolls of film, all while Brad Pitt was intentionally chipping his teeth.
The movie is wild, and what happened behind the camera was just as cool.
Here’s what went down: