Britt Hayes is a Deputy Editor at MovieWeb, a professional writer, and a lifelong media obsessive whose love of movies began with her favorite childhood babysitter: the TV. Like most cultured millennials, Britt is chronically online (but can still remember a time Before Internet), very opinionated, and has a tattoo inspired by her favorite movie (The Royal Tenenbaums). She loves horror and all things genre, and her hottest take is that Wayne’s World 2 is good, actually.
After 20 years of development hell and false starts, Charles Burns’ Black Hole is finally making its way to the screen, courtesy of Netflix. Even better, the streamer has hired the perfect filmmaker for its series adaptation of Burns’ seminal graphic novel, which follows a group of Seattle teens who undergo strange physical mutations after contracting a sexually transmitted infection.
Per Variety, Netflix has given a six-episode series order to Black Hole, based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Charles Burns. The original comic-book run comprised 12 issues, published between 1995 and 2005, and became a massive cult hit, inspiring a wave of adaptation attempts from filmmakers including David Fincher and Alexandre Aja. Fincher’s adaptation is one of the great what ifs of his career, but Netflix has arguably found someone even better for the job: Jane Schoenbrun, the visionary filmmaker behind I Saw the TV Glow and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.
More to come…
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