The version of FightClub available in China reportedly no longer features the altered ending 👀 Guess it takes more to defeat Project Mayhem than an intertitle 😂
The censorship that had been applied to Fight Club for its streaming release in China has been reversed, following a significant backlash. Fight Club, directed by acclaimed psychological thriller filmmaker David Fincher, was released in 1999 to huge acclaim. It was adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, with a cast including Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter.
In early 2022, Fight Club dropped on Chinese streaming service Tencent, but the version that was available was not the original theatrical cut. Instead, the film’s ending had been cut short and replaced with an on-screen message stating that Tyler Durden, the film’s central character, was placed into psychiatric care. In addition, the censored ending saw the film’s anarchist group, Project Mayhem, and its planned bombings thwarted by law enforcement, unlike in the original ending.
The decision to reverse the changes has come as a surprise. Chinese censorship of Western-made films is commonplace, with the many blockbuster films taking into account whether its content will allow it to be released in the financially significant market. In particular, films with anti-authority messaging can struggle to be released in the country unedited, or even at all. In the recent past, for example, neither Joker nor The Dark Knight were released in China.
Ironically, the censored version brought the movie more in line with the original ending from Palahniuk's Fight Club novel, despite deviating substantially from Fincher’s intended version of the film. The reversal, however, raises questions around the future of censorship of Chinese releases, which has long influenced decisions made by Western productions.
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