Fincher Signs On to Direct Sexual Horror Flick 'Black Hole'
Filed under: Horror, Romance, Paramount
Any time I hear news about a new project from director David Fincher, I get a little excited. Barring his debut, the studio-monkeyed Alien 3, Fincher has had a remarkably impressive run as a flick helmer: Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room and Zodiac, with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on the way. So even though he already has a few projects in development, Mr. Fincher has signed on to direct an adaptation of Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole. Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, who last collaborated on Beowulf, will bang out the screenplay for MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.The Hollywood Reporter offers this as a plot synopsis: "The story follows a group of high school students whose lives are altered drastically when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug." But if you head on over to the publisher's site, you'll find a much more thorough breakdown. To me it sounds like John Hughes meets (early) David Cronenberg ... and obviously that'd be just fine by me. Here's hoping Fincher makes Black Hole his very next project.
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2-21-2008 @ 12:12AM
eric said...
amazing comic, I cant imagine how to approach it in a cinematic form, especially in these days of play-it-safe hollywood but I trust Fincher more than any other modern filmmaker to approach it with his trademark clarity, polish and balls. Looking forward.
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2-21-2008 @ 12:44AM
mike green said...
hey, alien 3 is a very good movie
keep an open mind, don't pay atention to the general opinion and you'll find is a very good movie, it's just had the bad luck of trying to keep up with the best action film of all time
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2-21-2008 @ 12:21PM
Patrick said...
I read Black Hole last year and it is a really fantastic piece of work. Fincher is an interesting choice and I could see him doing it well. Since you mentioned him, the only better person I could imagine would be David Cronenberg, but he's moved on from his horror days.
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2-21-2008 @ 1:32PM
Peter Martin said...
The original material is bleak, brilliant and haunting, perfectly capturing both teenage angst and adulthood fears of the unknown.
Fincher is a very good choice as director, but I admit I'm even more intrigued (apprehensive?) by what Gaiman and Avary might do with the screenplay. Right off the bat I can think of several ways they might approach the inter-connected stories to make the whole thing more "cinematic," but I hope they don't monkey around too much with the core vision of what Charles Burns created.
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2-21-2008 @ 1:45PM
Martin said...
From the synopsis on the publisher's site this sounds like Crash with STD and grotesque deformaties. Directed by David Fincher.
Sounds bloody good to me!
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