Director Jane Schoenbrun set to develop and direct Black Hole adaptation for Netflix

After multiple failed attempts, the Black Hole adaptation has finally found a home at Netflix, as Charles Burns' bestselling graphic novel is finally set to be adapted by writer-director Jane Schoebrun. Netflix awarded the adaptation a straight-to-series order after cementing a deal with New Regency, which owns the comic's rights.

The upcoming project is described as such:

"There’s an old myth that haunts the seemingly perfect small town of Roosevelt: if you have s*x too young, you’ll contract the “bug,” a virus that literally turns you into a “monster” from your worst nightmares. Absurd, right? That’s what Chris always assumed, until, after one reckless night at the beginning of senior year, she finds herself infected. Now she’ll be cast out to the woods to live with the other infected, where a chilling, new threat emerges: a serial killer who’s hunting them one-by-one."

Keep reading to find out everything we know about the upcoming project.

Netflix greenlights Black Hole with Jane Schoebrun as director

Charles Burns' graphic novels were originally published in 12 issues from 1995 to 2005. It was released as a collected graphic novel one year after the final issue was published. Since its publication, there have been several attempts at the graphic novel's adaptation, all of them unsuccessful.

Numerous creative teams have partnered with studios to try and develop a film adapted from the graphic novel, but none of those pitches ever went forward. In 2018, New Regency and Plan B were set to produce a film adaptation, directed by the Dope director and writer Rick Famuyiwa.

However, this attempt also fell apart, leading to a competitive situation with multiple bidders recently, which Netflix finally won. New Regency's Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, and Laura Delahaye are set to co-produce Black Hole along with Netflix and Plan B, and Erin Levy will be joining as executive producer.

Black Hole is set to follow a high school senior named Chris who undermines her small town's old legend and finds herself stranded in the woods and hunted by a serial killer who wants to kill her kind. According to the small town's legend, anybody who has s*x too young will get a "bug" that turns them into a "monster".

Thinking that the legend is just a ploy to keep teenagers from having s*x, Chris disregards it and, after a reckless night during her senior year, ends up infected and is cast into the woods with the other infected. Barely able to deal with this newfound reality, she finds out that she's being hunted by a serial killer who wants to finish off her kind", the infected, one by one. Black Hole is set to be directed by Jane Schoenbrun.

Schoenbrun previously wrote and directed We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards. They also have an experimental documentary titled A Self-Induced Hallucination. Schoenbrun also has an upcoming feature project titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which is also a Plan B production. Black Hole marks Schoenbrun's first foray into writing and directing a series.

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