Fincher replaces Aja and ‘Black Hole’ is filled

With Alexandre Aja no longer in the picture – officially going the large scale horror route with Piranha 3-D, the trades report that Paramount Pictures have decided extend their partnership with David Fincher setting the snubbed in 2007 filmmaker for the graphic novel to screen, teen angst project Black Hole.

What sounds like good news for Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman who are both adapting the screenplay, familiar in theme to Carter Smith’s short film BugCrush, this will be based on the 12-issue comic book (painstakingly written!) and
illustrated by Charles Burns over a 10-year period. This will feature a young cast (perhaps calling back Panic Room’s Kristen Stewart in the fold, she still looks like a teen). Fincher is probably in the final stages of post-production with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and will be choosing between projects – curiously a pile up of graphic novels with The Killer and Torso and a long in waiting sci-fi project Rendezvous with Rama. The Paramount Pictures/MTV Films project will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and Kevin Messick. 

This graphic novel series deals with fear
of adulthood, sex and ostracism. When the work was finally completed
last year, it was collected into a graphic novel. The story follows a
group of high school students whose lives are altered drastically when
they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the
“teen plague” or “the bug.”