Youth arrested for emulating 'Fight Club' Pitt

A teenager has been arrested in New York City for emulating Brad Pitt's character in Fight Club.

Kyle Shaw, 17, was taken into custody as a suspect in the May bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks on Tuesday, the New York Post reports.

The youth reportedly bragged to his friend that he was launching his own version of Pitt's anti-consumerist character Tyler Durden's 'Project Mayhem'.

It is understood that Shaw told his acquaintance to "watch the news this weekend, because I'm about to launch 'Project Mayhem'," police commissioner Ray Kelly told the newspaper.

Customers at the popular coffee franchise were not injured after the bomb blew a hole in a nearby bench and shattered two windows.

Kelly added that the teen had started up his own "fight club", where men engage in bare-knuckled brawls with very few rules. One underage participant suffered a broken nose during the Central Park clashes.

Last year, director David Fincher said that a musical based on the 1999 movie, which co-starred Edward Norton, was unlikely to transpire.