Chuck Klosterman’s Killing Yourself To Live - The Movie?
By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2008 10:40 pm EST
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The book is actually a very strange choice for a movie adaptation as it focuses of Klosterman’s journey to the death locations of famous rock musicians (Sarah Vowell did the NPR-ish version of this with Assassination Vacation). What started as a feature for SPIN Magazine, grew into a memoir. Its as much about the musicians and the deaths as it is about what Chuck leans about himself and his relationships along the way. I’m sure the movie adaptation will be loosely based on the concept. Chuck tells Variety, “The idea is to do a comedic road movie heavily based in rock ’n’ roll.” No screenwriter has yet been hired. Klosterman will executive produce. I’ve included the official book description below:
“For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock ’n’ roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end — one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing…and what this means for the rest of us.”
