Fresh off being royally screwed by the Academy for the amazing "Zodiac" comes the news that David fuckin' Fincher has been signed on to direct the Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman adapted version of Charles Burns' awesomely fucked up graphic novel "Black Hole." A while back there was rumblings about Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension / Hills Have Eyes....) running this show, but, as much as i'll always defend Haute Tension, i'm glad he got the boot. So freaking pumped. If you haven't read the book its worth the buy (or i can let you borrow it) Heres a quick synopsis straight from wikipedia:
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.[1]
The look of the comic is meant to evoke the feel and atmosphere of classic 70s teen horror films like The Last House on the Left, Carrie and Halloween.
Heres the original scoop from Variety:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981202.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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