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Variety reports that David Fincher (Zodiac, Se7en) will direct the big-screen adaptation of Charles Burns’ horror comic Black Hole for Paramount Pictures.
Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were hired to write the screenplay in March 2006. Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension) previously had been attached to direct.
In the 12-issue series, which ran from 1995 to 2005, a group of teens in ’70s suburban Seattle contract a mysterious sexually transmitted disease that triggers bizarre physical mutations.
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
After having read the 1st few issues many years ago, I picked up the collection, and it hold up. Few comics have achieved the levels of creepiness and discomfort that this book matches.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
12 issue series which ran from 1995 to 2005? seriously? i didn’t realize it took 10 years, wow.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Never read it but I always wanted to. This’ll be gold with Fincher atached.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Definitely one of the greatest comics of all time. I am wary about it translating well.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I don’t really trust anything that Fincher has his name attached to to actually come out until I see an actual trailer. Wasn’t he also attached to a TORSO adaptation? And a “The Killer” adaptation? The dude slaps his name on just about anything he thinks is interesting..
February 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Well, if I was him, I would do the same thing. I’m sure many of those didn’t fall through because of him, so to blame him for projects that didn’t get made that he was attached to is silly, and shows a bit of a lack of understanding for how films get made.
As for this project, I picked this up in a Borders and flipped through, and was interested, but not enough at that moment to shell out the cash for it. If this look like it will actually make it to the big screen, then I will definitely have to pick this up.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
You’re criticizing David Fincher for attaching himself to projects that never get made? Just like, oh, every single director in Hollywood?
February 20th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Jason, why does it matter if it makes it to the big screen? A good book is a good book. Don’t look to Hollywood to validate your literature for you. Black Hole is one of the best comics of the last decade and you’re missing out by not reading it.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:18 am
…So, can we get Ernest Borgnine to make a cameo in this remake? Or…
Oh. Sorry. Wrong Black Hole
February 21st, 2008 at 12:33 am
12 issue series which ran from 1995 to 2005? seriously? i didn’t realize it took 10 years, wow.
Comment by dan — February 20, 2008
what, you’re not reading All-Star Batman?
February 21st, 2008 at 1:17 am
If it’s is even half as good as the comic, this movie will rule.
Terrific news!
February 21st, 2008 at 1:29 am
Oh thank god, now this movie actually has a chance of being good. Outside of Zack Snyder, Aja is one of the most clueless style-over-substance directors to emerge in the past decade. Neither of them has any clue how to develop a character and both think that excessive gore equals visionary filmmaking.
At least with Fincher, Burns’s original material gets a director that actually understands both visual composition and serious character development.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hey, maybe it will get done before Roger Avary gets life in jail for killing that guy.
I’m not kidding.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:10 am
“Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were hired to write the screenplay”
No sale. I paid for Beowulf. They’re not gonna get me again.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:44 am
You know what’s crazy? That huge book is, like, eighteen bucks. And I bought mine with a Borders coupon so it was something like thirteen bucks for a book that weighs more than all of DC’s New Gods hardcovers combined.
I see everything Fincher directs (ZODIAC is amazing), but I kind of prefer this super creepy organic stuff on the page - otherwise, it’s Cronenberg’s EXISTENZ all over again. >
February 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
I just read this book which was great! I hope they do sort of a “Sin City” esque take on the movie… very stylized so that they show the cross-hatching and such.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
i might have to finally give in and get this
February 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
Cool beans…now if only we can get “Strangers In Paradise” on the big screen!!!
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:48 am
Can someone please pick up my jaw off the floor?