Some might say David Fincher’s last movie Zodiac fell into a black hole, when you consider how little attention it got. His next movie though will actually be called Black Hole, so there’s a built in excuse for it to be ignored.
Actually, when I read in HR that Fincher was doing a movie called Black Hole, I got sort of excited and had this crazy idea that he might be remaking the old Disney science fiction movie The Black Hole, about a crew of astronauts and robots who get sucked into a space phenomenon and battle a mad genius. It takes a lot of flack, but the Disney movie is better than it gets credit for, and I’d be geeked out of my mind to see a modern take on it, especially from someone like Fincher.
Sadly, that is not to be. This isn’t a science fiction movie or anything nearly that interesting. Instead it sounds like an AIDS horror movie, or a horror movie about some sort of AIDS proxy. A group of students come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease which they call the “teen plague” or “the bug”. Unless “the bug” is actual vaginal cockroaches, it sounds kind of been there done that. Black Hole sounds so 2002. But, Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary are adapting it into a script from a graphic novel. That’s good. Fincher plus Gaiman with a dash of Avary is more than enough to get me interested, no matter how sketchy the movie's plot sounds.
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I admit that as a logline the story sounds a bit shaky, but do yourself a *huge* favor and check out the graphic novel. It's one of the most moving and evocative works on being a teenager I've ever read. Dark but so true to life with great characterization. The whole "bug" thing is really a metaphor for the awkwardness of growing up and feeling isolated/"different". Granted, true horror fans might be saddened to hear that that story element isn't really front-and-center (at least in the book) but it has the makings for a great film, especially in Fincher's capable hands.
David Fincher's book Black Hole is an incredible piece of art. It's probable impossible to transform it into a film. It's brave of David Fincher to even try.
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Some might say David Fincher’s last movie Zodiac fell into a black hole, when you consider how little attention it got. His next movie though will actually be called Black Hole, so there’s a built in excuse for it to be ignored.
February 29th, 2008 at 15:49
I admit that as a logline the story sounds a bit shaky, but do yourself a *huge* favor and check out the graphic novel. It's one of the most moving and evocative works on being a teenager I've ever read. Dark but so true to life with great characterization. The whole "bug" thing is really a metaphor for the awkwardness of growing up and feeling isolated/"different". Granted, true horror fans might be saddened to hear that that story element isn't really front-and-center (at least in the book) but it has the makings for a great film, especially in Fincher's capable hands.