12. Fincher—whose movies have turn into identified for his or her haunting, and in The Social Network‘s case, Oscar-winning scores—needed Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke to rating Fight Club, however the artist was drained from selling OK Computer and had to cross. (Norton informed Raftery that he and Pitt stayed up until 4 a.m. the evening they completed taking pictures, smoking a joint and listening to OK Computer.)

“They sent me the script and Ed and Brad Pitt wrote to me and said ‘We really think you should do this,’” Yorke informed BBC 6 in 2018. “I went, ‘Nah, I can’t.’ And I couldn’t. I wouldn’t have been able to do it then, but every time I see the film I go, ‘Oh…’”

Instead, the Dust Brothers, Michael Simpson and John King, offered the post-modern sound Fincher had in thoughts. He “wanted it to be like a bee is stuck in your ear,” Simpson described their marching orders to Raftery. “He wanted to give the audience the impulse to leave the theater before the opening credits were done.”

King added, “There’s a schizophrenic quality to the music. But perhaps that’s appropriate for the movie.”