Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content:  Choke is a 2008 American black comedy film written and directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. The film was released on September 26, 2008 and the DVD was released on February 17, 2009. Choke is based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It tells the story of a man who works in a colonial theme park, attends sexual addiction recovery meetings, and intentionally chokes on food in upscale restaurants so his "rescuers" would give him money out of sympathy and thus cover his mother's Alzheimer's disease hospital bills.
Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content:  In April 2001, following the video and DVD success of the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's book Fight Club, the author sold feature film rights to his then-unpublished book Choke to Bandeira Entertainment under producer Beau Flynn. Flynn optioned Choke on the request of actor Clark Gregg, who had received the book as a writing assignment and became fascinated with Chokes unflinching way of dealing with "the difficult topics of childhood trauma and sexual compulsion in a way that was both painful and hysterically funny". Gregg worked on the book for five years, trying to adapt it faithfully. He decided to write his personal version of the story, believing that it would be one that Chuck Palahniuk would oppose. To Gregg's surprise, the author liked and supported the departures made in Gregg's version. Gregg described the difficulty of writing the script: "It's a tricky adaptation because like a lot of Chuck's work, it operates in a heightened satirical, dark world, yet this one is one of his black romantic comedies, so getting the tone right took me some time."
Title: Choke (novel)
Content:  Choke is a 2001 novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk. The story focuses on Victor, a sex addict, and con man. He also works at a colonial reenactment museum. The novel was later adapted for film by Clark Gregg.
Title: Choke (novel)
Content:  A film adaptation directed by Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, was released commercially on September 26, 2008. Palahniuk makes a cameo appearance in the film.
Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content:  Choke premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2008, where it won a Special Jury Prize for a dramatic work by an ensemble cast. Having been positively received in its screening, the film was purchased for $5 million by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. Choke was also the closing film for the 10th Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts on June 22, 2008. The film was originally scheduled for a commercial release on August 1, 2008, but it was postponed to September 26, 2008.
Title: Choke (2011 film)
Content:  Choke is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michelle Latimer and released in 2011. Created by Latimer in conjunction with animator Terril Calder, the film centres on a young First Nations man who leaves his remote northern reserve to move to the city, only to find life there much more difficult and challenging than he had imagined. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention in the short films category. It was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2011, and subsequently received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.
Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content: Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a sex addict who cons people in order to fund the care of his hospitalized mother. ; Jonah Bobo as young Victor ; Anjelica Huston as Ida Mancini, Victor's mother. ; Kelly Macdonald as Paige Marshall ; Brad William Henke as Denny, Victor's best friend, a reformed sex addict. He is thrown out of his parents' house and becomes Victor's roommate. ; Paz de la Huerta as Nico ; Gillian Jacobs as Cherry Daiquiri / Beth, a stripper who falls for Denny. ; Clark Gregg as Lord High Charlie ; Bijou Phillips as Ursula ; Joel Grey as Phil, a member of Victor's sex addiction therapy group. Grey is the director's father-in-law.  Writer Chuck Palahniuk makes a cameo appearance. He can be seen in the same row as Sam Rockwell on the plane just before the film ends.
Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content:  Gregg was attached to film Choke in his directorial debut. Production was originally slated for 2006, but Gregg was temporarily occupied with a key role on the TV comedy series The New Adventures of Old Christine. By July 2007, Gregg cast actor Sam Rockwell in the lead role, as well as supporting cast members. Production began in the same month in New Jersey. Filming lasted 25 days with a budget of $3.4 million. Gregg had acted with Rockwell in a play, and the director believed that Rockwell would switch effortlessly between the dramatic and comedic moments in the film. A major filming location was the defunct Essex County Psychiatric Hospital in Cedar Grove. 
Title: Choke (2008 film)
Content:  hospital was considered a critical location by filmmakers, who believed that production would not have taken off without the discovered hospital, due to the project's minimal budget. As opposed to dark comedies that had a sustained tone, Gregg found Choke to be more tonally complex, and that it would veer between "extremely dramatic moments" and "absurdly silly ones". The director sought to find a way to combine the two elements, drawing inspiration from the Hal Ashby films Harold and Maude (1971) and Being There (1979) and contemporary films like Secretary (2002) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). In addition, the limited budget forced the director to consider economical measures throughout production.
Title: Choke (novel)
Content: Much of Palahniuk's research on Choke was conducted with total strangers at the gym and sexual addiction groups. ; A song by Scottish band Biffy Clyro is titled "Joy.Discovery.Invention" after a line in the novel. 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Choke?
Answer: Marti Noxon.
Martha Mills Noxon.