Netflix will be releasing a series from Jane Schoenbrun based on Charles Burns’ comic Black Hole, according to Deadline. The series doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s hard to think of anyone better able to translate Burns’ vision off of the page and onto the screen.
The comic, which won a Harvey Award in 2006, is set in a small town outside of Seattle where an STD called “The Bug” starts mutating teenagers, causing strange physical changes to their bodies and sending most of them fleeing to the woods as outcasts. As the town’s teens navigate the outbreak, some of the infected start disappearing.
This isn’t the first time Hollywood has attempted to make this comic into a movie or show. Alexandre Aja, Neli Gaiman, and David Fincher have been attached to various attempts to adapt the work since the 2000s.
Schoenbrun is the writer and director of last year’s amazing I Saw the TV Glow. They also wrote and directed the creepy and underrated feature We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and have a new film coming out next year on Mubi starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder. And they wrote a novel called Public Access Afterworld, that’s also publishing next year. It’s a good time to be a Schoenbrun fan!
