Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary step aside on Black Hole.

Up until recently Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary were hard at work adapting Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole for David Fincher.  The film would focus on “the twelve-issue series where high school kids in the ’70s get a sexually transmitted disease called “teen plague,” which at first, has no known cause. Some only got a rash. Others became monsters and grew new body parts, like a tail or an extra mouth or webbing. It’s like a mini-AIDS, with all the sexual-social outsider issues that entails but way more mutations.”  Both Avary and Gaiman said they left the project due to Fincher’s request for multiple rewrites.

I’ve never read the graphic novel, but the premise sounds killer, and I think Fincher is the right man for the job.  It’s a bummer that these two awesome writers are stepping away from the project.

Source: MTV

Do you think Fincher is the right man for the job, and do you agree with Gaiman, and Avary’s decision to walk away from the project?  Talk about it in the comments section below.