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David Fincher to Direct Black Hole

February 20, 2008

Variety reports that David Fincher will direct Black Hole for Paramount Pictures. Alexandre Aja was previously attached to direct.

Based on Charles Burns' graphic novel, the project was set up at MTV Films but will now be developed at the parent studio. Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were tapped to adapt the screenplay in March 2006.

This is how the book is described:

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you've got it, that's it. There's not turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it - what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. 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.

As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin...

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COMMENTS (16)

Posted by:

February 20, 2008

COOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Posted by:

Invasian

February 20, 2008

Fincher better do what he does best, dark, bleak with no glimer of hope....hope this ends up being a classic along with 7even and Fight club...

Posted by:

Pow

February 20, 2008

Enough 70's crap! Set it in current day!

Posted by:

steven

February 20, 2008

sounds sweet!

Posted by:

safeer

February 20, 2008

yeh itz very cool ,easy to watch video

Posted by:

Brad G

February 20, 2008

Sound's good... As long as they keep it in Seattle the dark bleak look wont even need any cg assistance..... It'll probably be filmed in Vancouver Canada though.... No one can tell the difference except us Seattle-lites....

Posted by:

Lars

February 20, 2008

POW, give me a break. And the friggin' novel is about the era, you can't just change it to current times. Sorry if it's not Step up 2 the streets.

Posted by:

Shoemeister

February 20, 2008

"Posted by: Pow on February 20, 2008 at 19:43:19

Enough 70's crap! Set it in current day!"

Yeah, because I'd much rather this movie be set to the backdrop of a culture that embraces "Soulja Boy."

Jesus... where's the rolling eyes smiley when you need it?

Posted by:

John

February 20, 2008

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
WELL SAID!!!! wheres the clapping smiley when u need it

Posted by:

chadwick

February 20, 2008

Fincher will film it in Seattle.
I can feel it.