EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Brown ( Your Lucky Day ) wrote and is gearing up to direct a feature adaptation of Survivor , the satirical 1999 novel from Fight Club ‘s Chuck Palahniuk .

Set to shoot in Auckland, New Zealand in early 2026, the film follows the final hours of Tender Branson — the last surviving member of a puritan cult — as he recounts his rise from anonymity to superstardom aboard a commercial airliner with no one left to fly it.

The film will be produced by Ryan Rettig ( Voyage of Time , Last Days in the Desert ) and Miles David Romney ( The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd , Oscar-nominated Ninety-Five Senses ) for Community Garden and financier V42, with Mel Turner and Axel Paton at Auckland-based Ground Control ( Wolf Man , Heart Eyes ).

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