Black Hole

Director David Fincher has a new graphic novel adaptation on the horizon, the big screen treatment for Charles Burns' Black Hole.

Unfortunately, this would not be the Disney film with the Red cyborg Maximilian that scared the crap out of you when you were 5. Like I was hoping when I first read this...

After Fincher completed Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Butter for Paramount, Fincher is also working on Torso and a new remake of The Killer. Brad Pitt's production shingle Plan B and producer Kevin Messick have been developing the new project, based on the 12-issue graphic novel by Burns.

Plot Concept: Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s the book follows a group of mostly middle class teenagers who over the summer contract a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as "the Bug" or "the teen plague", which causes them to develop bizarre physical mutations, turning them into social outcasts. Several teens with the bug find seclusion at "The Pit", an encampment in the woods outside of town. Later some of the characters move to a tract house while its owners are on vacation. Burns has said that the mutations can be read as a metaphor for adolescence, sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood.

This sounds more like a cautionary tale about anal sex... what? Come on! Am I the only one...?