Black Hole

Neil Gaiman has been at work on the script of an interesting book titled Black Hole. It is a graphic novel that really doesn’t need any introduction and is one of the cults of its genre.

For the past two years, Gaiman and Roger Avary had been working to adapt Charles Burns’ acclaimed graphic novel Black Hole. The twelve issue series where high school kids in the 70s get a sexually transmitted disease called the teen plague which at first, has no known cause. Some only got a rash, while others turn into monsters and grew new body parts, like a tail or an extra mouth or webbing. It’s like a mini AIDS, with all the sexual social outsider issues that entails but way more mutations.

Alexander Aja was initially associated to direct the movie but then he butted out by the great David Fincher. This is surely good news for the project and I would like to see what David could do with a story like this. “Once they got David Fincher on,” Gaiman said, “David explained his process consisted of having over ten drafts, done over and over, and Roger and I were sort of asked if we wanted to, if we were interested in doing that. And we definitely weren’t.”

So Gaiman and Avary “sort of stood aside,” he said. Fincher still has their last draft of the script, and he can work with it from there, but Gaiman doesn’t know the status of the project any further than that.

“So we will wait and see what happens,” he said. “I just hope whatever happens; it’s faithful to Black Hole. This is a really interesting development in the project. Tell me your views about it when you guys get the time.

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