10 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Have Nothing To Do With Marvel Or DC

7. Black Hole

Part of the problem with adapting comics to live action is losing the unique visual style of the original artist. Robert Rodriguez's Sin City adaptations got around that issue by bringing on comic creator Frank Miller as co-director, and directly basing the film off of the black-and-white, stylised look of the books with green screen; but at times that makes things look oddly staged. That may very well be the hold up in adapting Charles Burns' classic graphic novel Black Hole to the screen. The story of teens in the seventies dealing with grotesque mutations that are spread like a sexually transmitted disease (as in, by banging) is vividly told with Burns' unique €“ and uniquely horrifying €“ art style. No less than Alexandre Aja, Neil Gaiman, Rogery Avary and David Fincher have all been attached to the project in the past, and yet such plans have come to naught. Apparently Fincher's name is still attached to direct for Paramount Pictures, and his similarly singular aesthetic would certainly work; failing that, Snow White And The Hunstman director Rupert Sanders put together a short film as a pitch.