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Charles Burns's comic, Black Hole, has been taking a long, meandering journey from page to screen. And now, the showrunner of its TV adaptation, Jane Schoenbrun, has dropped some details about the upcoming Netflix show. 

Speaking in the latest issue of Empire magazine, Schoenbrun said, "I'm trying to think of it less as paying reverent tribute to this holy text and more as using this book that means so much to me, and that's been in my subconsciousness for half my life, as a jumping-off point to something new."

Schoenbrun is best known for directing the films We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. The Black Hole show will be produced by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B. Not much else is known at this moment about what direction Schoenbrun will be taking the story.

Black Hole is about a group of teens in the suburbs of Seattle in the mid-1970s as they catch a sexually-transmitted disease called "the Bug" that strikes when they have sex for the first time. The Bug transforms them into monstrous creatures, isolating them from the rest of their community. 

Over the years, numerous creatives in Hollywood have been attached to work on an adaptation of Black Hole. A year after Black Hole was completed by Charles Burns, Alexandre Aja was signed on to direct a movie adaptation to be written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary. Two years later, in 2008, David Fincher came on to direct it. Later that year, Gaiman and Avary left the project, and it was reported that Fincher would not be using their script in his adaptation. Fincher left Black Hole in 2010, only to return in 2013 before the project went dormant. More recently, Dope and Mandalorian director Rick Famuyiwa came aboard to write and direct his own adaptation in 2018 before Schoenbrun was announced as the showrunner of a Netflix television adaptation. 

Schoenbrun's next project, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, will be released in theaters August 7, 2026.

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