In Fight Club (1999), Edward Norton portrays the unnamed narrator who meets Tyler Durden.
The narrator is an alienated automobile-industry employee whose insomnia and dissatisfaction lead him to form an unusual friendship with Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. Together they establish an underground fighting organization that develops into a broader anti-consumerist movement.
The character is never given a conventional personal name in the film. This is why answers such as “Jack,” a name associated with recurring lines and source material, can create confusion. The safest canonical answer is Edward Norton, the actor who plays the narrator.
David Fincher directed Fight Club from a screenplay by Jim Uhls, adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel. The film initially divided critics and performed modestly in theaters, but later became a prominent cult film through home video and continued discussion of its themes.