David Fincher takes on multiple comic book adaptations (Including 'Heavy Metal'!)

[requieminadream]

I came across one article at Wired.com which lead me to more articles about other comics he'll be adapting. Looks like he's keeping a lot busier than he used to be!

David Fincher Gets the Bug to Direct Black Hole
The Game, Fight Club, and Zodiac director David Fincher is set to direct a feature adaptation of Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole. Burns' 12-issue comic-book turned graphic novel opens up with a sexually transmitted "bug" passed from teenager to teenager. Those who get the bug develop strange mutations like a tiny mouth at the base of one boy's neck. Those with grosser mutations end up homeless.

With Brad Pitt's Plan B taking on some of the producing responsibilities can we expect a cameo?

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/david-fincher-g.html

Fincher to Animate Heavy Metal
It's a match made in bad-boy heaven: Fight Club's David Fincher has signed on to oversee an omnibus film drawn from stories from Heavy Metal, the blood-and-boobs sci-fi/fantasy magazine that has already spawned two films, according to Variety.

Fincher will direct one of eight or nine segments, with Heavy Metal publisher/editor Kevin Eastman and Tim Miller of CG master Blur Studio each doing another. Word on other directors to come.

Expect some fanboy grumbling: The original 1981 Heavy Metal film -- with voiceover work by John Candy, Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis, plus music by Devo, Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath -- remains a quintessential cult film. (I remember the fifth- and seventh-generation VHS tapes being passed around during years of rights wrangling.)

But, if Fincher's films are any indication, this trip into the Heavy Metal world is more likely to match the often gruesome and erotic intensity of the magazine.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/fincher-to-anim.html

Fincher Brings Goon Comic to Big Screen
David Fincher is taking Dark Horse comic The Goon to the movies.

Famously adept at crafting tightly wound creep-outs in Se7en, Zodiac and Fight Club, Fincher will team with Blur Studios to make the CG animated feature.

Who exactly is the Goon? Hatched by Eric Powell nine years ago in his graphic novel series, the thug with an ugly mug serves as muscle for a mobster. The Goon's job: Dispatch zombies, skunk apes and other paranormal mutants.

Goon is the first feature from Blur, the Venice, California-based outfit best known for its wacky TV commercials and Oscar-nominated Gopher Broke short.

Dark Horse Entertainment plans to develop the project in-house, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

As reported earlier, Universal Studios has a first-look deal with Dark Horse: The studio, which also handles the Hellboy movies based on the Dark Horse comic, will get first dibs on The Goon.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/07/fincher-brings.html

He hasn't let me down yet, and these comics certainly have the edge he loves to portray on film! I wonder how long after Benjamin Button it will take to see these.

What do you all think about these developments?

[Brainbuster]

Black Hole sounds like something David Cronenberg would do.

I've never seen Heavy Metal so I can't give an opinion one way or the other.

[mrbasehart]

Black Hole sounds like something David Cronenberg would do.

That's exactly what I thought.   

I like Fincher, so I'll probably check out anything he does. 

[Tripe]

I've never seen Heavy Metal so I can't give an opinion one way or the other.

The movie or the magazine?

If it really is true to the magazine then I'll maybe pick up a dvd of it at some point.

[Brainbuster]

I've never seen Heavy Metal so I can't give an opinion one way or the other.

The movie or the magazine?

Either one