Fin: The first rule of all-female Fight Club is there is no all-female Fight Club

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The story made the rounds of Film Twitter earlier this week: They’re making an all-female reboot of Fight Club, with Greta Gerwig directing and Margot Robbie and Charlize Theron attached. 

The reaction was swift: This is the worst idea anyone has ever heard of. Woke Hollywood is at it again. They’re misunderstanding what Fight Club is all about, the 1990s-specific story of disaffected Gen X males turning to violence. 

Here’s a 7-minute YouTube from “WorldClassBullshitters,” ranting to his 197,000 subscribers about this terrible idea:

And it is. But it’s also not real, and was never real. 

It’s now been deleted, but it appears this virality came from a super-honorable Twitter/X account called Women Being Awful. Here’s a screenshot, which comes in the form of a tweet from the real account Discussing Film, which sources the story to Deadline: 

 Beyond the “Women Being Awful” part, some red flags are here. For one thing, it says the movie is “moving forward at Fox.” That’s not possible because “Fox” no longer exists. Disney bought the studio that used to be Fox several years ago, and the studio that used to be Fox is now “Twentieth Century Studios.” Fox produced the original Fight Club, and any sequel or reboot — unlikely since the 1999 film lost a lot of money — would likely come through Twentieth Century. But it’s all moot because it’s not real.

Also, Discussing Film never tweeted this, and Deadline never reported it. The “Female Fight Club reboot” is made up out of whole cloth. 

This might be the quintessential Musk-era Twitter controversy, in which something went viral that’s entirely imaginary while permitting readers to be casually misogynistic.