Eisner’s Not Doing BROOD And Fincher’s Not Doing BLACK HOLE Either

Pajiba has reported that Breck Eisner (The Crazies, the new Escape From New York) and David Fincher (The Social Network) have left the projects they were previously attached to..

Back in December LA TIMES reported that Eisner was attached to direct the new take on the classic horror THE BROOD by David Cronenberg. The project is housed at Spyglass Entertainment and the script is written by Cory Goodman
But Eisner has dropped the project and Spyglass is now looking for a another director. The original 1979 version, I dare you to watch it, was about “a man who tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband’s investigation” starring the late Oliver Reed.

Since he is going to be busy with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Fincher has decided to not be set to direct BLACK HOLE anymore. Scripted by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, based on the graphic novel by Charles Burns

Here’s the book‘s synopsis..

“Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

And then the murders start.

As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…”