News black hole Jane Schoenbrun Is Set to Adapt Charles Burns’ Black Hole for Netflix The director of I Saw the TV Glow will create, write, and direct the series. By Molly Templeton | Published on October 23, 2025 Photo: A24 Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: A24 Jane Schoenbrun is going back to the ’90s—kinda. The writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow is on board to create, write, and direct a series adaptation of Charles Burns’ comic Black Hole, which first appeared in 1995. The twelve-issue comic series was published over a decade and then collected in graphic novel form in 2005. The story, though, took place in the ’70s, as a group of Seattle-area teens faced a plague spread by sexual contact. It doesn’t sound like Schoenbrun’s Netflix adaptation is going to change too much about the story, but it also isn’t clear when it will take place. The series description, according to Deadline: 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. Time called the collected Black Hole “the best graphic novel of the year” and “one of the most stunning graphic novels yet published.” The New York Times called it “Burns’s masterwork.” And people have been trying to adapt it basically since it appeared in book form. David Fincher and Alexandre Aja are among the directors who considered tackling the project as a film; most recently, Mandalorian director Rick Famuyiwa was attached to a potential film adaptation. It’s an interesting choice for Schoenbrun, whose I Saw the TV Glow was a critical smash last year (it is beloved by many a Reactor writer). Her next project, the slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is set to star Gillian Anderson and Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder (no release date has been announced). Last year, Schoenbrun also announced her debut novel, a “contemporary queer opus” that’s described as “an epic blend of literary fantasy, coming-of-age, sci fi, and horror.”[end-mark] The post Jane Schoenbrun Is Set to Adapt Charles Burns’ <i>Black Hole</i> for Netflix appeared first on Reactor.