Last week SpookyDan visited Alex Aja (High Tension, Hills Have Eyes) in the editing room for his latest feature film, Mirrors, which arrives this August from 20th Century Fox. While chatting with the French director, Spooky discovered some interesting information regarding The Black Hole adaptation, which Aja was once attached to. Read on for the skinny.
While chatting with director Alex Aja about MIRRORS, SpookyDan got Aja to revealed a little bit of interesting news about THE BLACK HOLE, which he was once attached to. Apparently Aja hopes to eventually make the film. “Basically we received a script based on the graphic novel about three years ago. We fell in love with this story about teenagers as monsters. As we got into development we approached Roger Avery and Neil Gaimen to do it, but schedules got in the way, then we didn’t really get along with the studio," he tells Bloody-Disgusting. "Now David Fincher is attached, but he has loads of projects so it may eventually come back to us. Its a great graphic novel and I want to do it exactly as it is in the book, it has to have all the sexual innuendo and drug emphasis that are so great in the book!"
The story follows a group of high school students whose lives are altered drastically when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug."
Aja is a pretty cool dude, and if the project wasn't already in Fincher's hands, I would be cheering for Aja to pick that bad boy project up and make it immediately. However, Ficher, in all honesty, is 10x the filmmaker Aja is. Maybe thats becuase I'm a MASSIVE Fincher fan, but that's the way I feel. Either way, done by Fincher or Aja, it would still be a treat to see.
I totally agree with you. Even though I'm a huge fan of Aja's, I just think David Fincher is more capable of doing the material justice. I'm way excited for Mirrors though.
I agree, if Fincher actually gets this made it will be amazing. However, I hope he doesn't just shelve it, out of all the projects he is attached to it is by far the most interesting. Let Aja do it if the property is going to revert.
Not that I'm adding anything new, but yeah. Like Aja, but I really hope that Fincher stays on the project. When Aja makes a movie better than Se7en, come tell me.
I'd rather have Aja handle this movie. I've read the graphic novel and while Fincher is a fine filmmaker it just comes across to me as something Aja would do better. I fear Fincher would shy away from such overt sexuality.
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While chatting with director Alex Aja about MIRRORS, SpookyDan got Aja to revealed a little bit of interesting news about THE BLACK HOLE, which he was once attached to. Apparently Aja hopes to eventually make the film. “Basically we received a script based on the graphic novel about three years ago. We fell in love with this story about teenagers as monsters. As we got into development we approached Roger Avery and Neil Gaimen to do it, but schedules got in the way, then we didn’t really get along with the studio," he tells Bloody-Disgusting. "Now David Fincher is attached, but he has loads of projects so it may eventually come back to us. Its a great graphic novel and I want to do it exactly as it is in the book, it has to have all the sexual innuendo and drug emphasis that are so great in the book!"
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