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David Fincher to direct 'Black Hole'
After finishing up The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt, Fight Club and Zodiac director David Fincher could be heading into Black Hole next. The film is an adaptation of a graphic novel by Charles Burns about mutant teenagers in the 1970s.
Black Hole is a 12-issue black-and-white comic series that was first published in 1995. Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s, the story follows a group of mostly middle class teenagers who over the summer contract a mysterious STD 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. The author, Charles Burns, has previously said that the mutations can be interpreted as metaphors for adolescence, sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood, themes which I'm sure Fincher will focus on.
The series was actually told over 10 years, finishing in 2005. CHUD's Devin Faraci, an avid fan of the comic, explains that "it never quite works out the way that you think it will, and in the end coalesces into a truly moving and beautiful story about becoming an adult."
Also, Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was pushed back a month, from November 26 to December 19, 2008.
Source.
After finishing up The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt, Fight Club and Zodiac director David Fincher could be heading into Black Hole next. The film is an adaptation of a graphic novel by Charles Burns about mutant teenagers in the 1970s.
Black Hole is a 12-issue black-and-white comic series that was first published in 1995. Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s, the story follows a group of mostly middle class teenagers who over the summer contract a mysterious STD 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. The author, Charles Burns, has previously said that the mutations can be interpreted as metaphors for adolescence, sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood, themes which I'm sure Fincher will focus on.
The series was actually told over 10 years, finishing in 2005. CHUD's Devin Faraci, an avid fan of the comic, explains that "it never quite works out the way that you think it will, and in the end coalesces into a truly moving and beautiful story about becoming an adult."
Also, Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was pushed back a month, from November 26 to December 19, 2008.
Source.
