David Fincher to Direct Graphic Novel Adaptation Black Hole
“
David Fincher tackling STDs, not like herpes,
worse,” is the imagined, beaded brow pitch to the studio. It worked. The director of the Oscar-shunned modern masterpiece
Zodiac, as well as
Fight Club, is attached to direct a film based on the comics-turned-acclaimed graphic novel,
Black Hole, by
Charles Burns. Brad Pitt’s
Plan B is producing the project, but like DiCaprio’s
Akira, no official word if Pitt is involved to star.
Roger Avary and
Neil Gaiman were set to adapt the screenplay in 2006, but no word if Fincher is doing his own thing here.
Set in the ’70s,
Black Hole is a 12-issue comic that followed teenagers who spread “the Bug,” a fictional, incurable STD that causes the sexually-active to develop horrific physical deformities, as well as those who didn’t catch it but reacted to the plague. As you might expect, this turns the infected teens into social outcasts, and the
plot synopsis at publisher Pantheon Graphics reads, “What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start.”
Fincher’s next theatrical release is December’s
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, which is already receiving almighty
buzz. Unlike Paul Thomas Anderson’s
There Will Be Blood, I don’t think Fincher has crafted his end-all-be-all American classic yet. And while
Black Hole sounds too fun and twisted to be it, I hope he’ll next be gearing up for the serious sci-fi epic
Rendezvous with Rama, one of several projects he’s latched to, another being the Eliot Ness serial killer flick
Torso. But a Fincher
Ghost World, are you friggin’ kidding? The eclipse has played into some strangely bi-polar news today, and this may be the peak of awesome.
Of note,
Alexandre Aja was originally on board to direct this, but he has other fish to fry (and can I just add that a
mere two /Film comments for his upcoming
Piranha 3D periodically had me questioning life?).
Along with
Blankets,
Black Hole has been in my “graphic novel requisite procrastination” queue on Amazon for at least six months. I didn’t realize it was originally published by the long-gone
Kitchen Sink Press, a company I fondly remember back in the day when I bought comics, if only for seeing its
Crow titles amongst the latest
The Maxx and
Pitt. Damn, this is going to be cool flick, nostalgia can take a hike. And shout out to
Paramount Pictures for booking Fincher for three flicks in a row now. That rocks.
Lettura in progress - Black Hole
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