I am having bad high school yearbook flashbacks just looking at this.
According to Variety, David Fincher will direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’s graphic novel Black Hole. Alexander Aja had previously been listed for the project. No word on what happened with Mr. Aja.
The screenplay is being written by Roger Avary and the oh so busy Neil Gaiman. Variety has this to say about the story (which I don’t know anything about):
Story kicks off when a sexually transmitted “bug” is passed from teenager to teenager.
Good heavens! Let’s see if the, um, ever reliable Wikipedia can expand upon this:
Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s the book follows a group of mostly middle class teenagers who over the summer contract a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as “the Bug” or “the teen plague”, which causes them to develop bizarre physical mutations, turning them into social outcasts. Several teens with the bug find seclusion at “The Pit”, an encampment in the woods outside of town. Later some of the characters move to a tract house while its owners are on vacation. Burns has said that the mutations can be read as a metaphor for adolescence, sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood.
Okay.
No dates or anything on this. Fincher has other projects on tap and doesn’t always seem to move with lightning speed so I have no idea when this one will come along. And of course, no casting yet.
