Variety reports that Paramount has picked up the movie rights to the horror comic series BLACK HOLE and has signed Alexandre (HIGH TENSION) Aja to direct once he’s wrapped up work on his upcoming HILLS HAVE EYES remake. BLACK HOLE, a decade-long project by writer/artist Charles Burns, originally published by Fantagraphics and just collected as a graphic novel from Pantheon Books, is set in mid-1970s Seattle, where high school students fall victim to a sexually transmitted plague that only affects teenagers. The disease causes bizarre physical deformities, and those who get it the worst wind up establishing camps in the nearby woods. MTV Films and Brad Pitt’s Plan B company will oversee the film, which Aja will produce with his regular partner Grégory Levasseur.
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