He scored a critical hit with Zodiac (even if Oscar forgot about it) and has finally finished work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And now David Fincher's adding another item to his To Do list, in the shape of Black Hole, a graphic novel adaptation with a difference.
Set in the 1970s, this is about a group of teenagers in suburban Seattle, who are caught in the outbreak of a strange plague that is spread by sexual contact. Some of the sufferers can hide their infection, but others have all-too-visible symptoms (sprouting horns, moulting skin, growing a second mouth). This isn't one of those books where everyone works to fight back against the bug, or find a cure - it's more about dealing with it. And in a while, the murders start.
It's all a metaphor for being a teenager, see? Well, we're not sure where the murders fit in exactly, but probably that's a metaphor for being picked last in PE or something.
The graphic novel was written by Charles Burns, but the screenplay adaptation was written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, who did a swell job recently turning the epic Beowulf into a proper film, and wrote this one back in 2006. Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes remake) was originally set to direct, and there's been no official confirmation as to why he left.
This one sounds pretty darn fascinating, if also pretty icky - and let's face it, a feature-length version of Supermarket Sweep would be worth a look if Fincher was directing it. What do you all think?