Variety‘s reporting that the creepy, beloved graphic novel Black Hole by Philly’s own Charles Burns is the next project for maverick director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac), a dream pairing if there ever was one. Or maybe a nightmare pairing, considering Fincher loves to mine the murkiest of depths in his films, and Burns’ masterpiece — a collection of his series of comics about teens in a ’70s small town who develop grotesque deformities in lieu of STDs after intercourse — is the kind of thing that gets under your skin and is mighty hard to shake off. Combine that with a possible script by Sandman guru Neil Gaiman and/or Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary, and this suddenly looks like one of the darker, hairier, more promising projects to come along the bland Hollywood pipeline in quite some time.
Variety: Black Hole Fun
Pressler On Burns: Circa 2002
Charles Burns On Wikipedia

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm.