In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Netflix has landed Black Hole, based on Charles Burns’ bestselling graphic novels, giving it a straight-to-series order. The hot package comes from New Regency, which will be the co-studio on series alongside the streamer, with Plan B and Erin Levy (Good American Family) among the executive producers.
Black Hole is created and written by filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow), who also is set to direct. Here is the description:
There’s an old myth that haunts the seemingly perfect small town of Roosevelt: if you have sex 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.
Executive producing the series are Plan B, Levy, Burns as well as Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, and Laura Delahaye for New Regency.
New Regency and Plan B, which had a deal at the indie studio, originally teamed up seven years ago to adapt Black Hole as a movie, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. The project did not come to fruition, with the companies subsequently taking a stab at the graphic novel as a TV series.
In a sign of improvement for the TV marketplace, there have been several major bidding wars recently yielding big commitments. Netflix also landed a supernatural drama spec script by Say Nothing creator Joshua Zetumer with a straight-to-series order while Paramount+ nabbed Discretion, starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, also with a straight-to-series order.
Black Hole joins New Regency’s current TV slate, which includes Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the Malcolm in the Middle limited series reboot for Disney+ and Man on Fire for Netflix.
Schoenbrun’s 2024 psychological horror film I Saw the TV Glow was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Director, and for three Gotham Awards. Their next film is Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which stars Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder and is produced by Plan B and Mubi.
Schoenbrun, whose first novel, Public Access Afterworld, will be published by Hogarth in 2026, is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Kimberly Jaime at Jackoway Austen.
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