He spent some time developing a Flash movie for Warner Bros. and DC, only to part ways over creative differences. Now Dope writer/director Rick Famuyiwa is looking to help a long-gestating project get to the screen. He's attached to write and direct an adaptation of graphic novel Black Hole.
Nothing to do with the Disney sci-fi film, Charles Burns' title is set in the 1970s and follows 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...
Alexandre Aja was to direct it back in 2005 when the book was first optioned on the back of several awards, while Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary wrote a few drafts of the script and David Fincher considered directing it in 2008. Here's hoping Famuyiwa has a better time with this film than his DCEU experience.
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