Jane Schoenbrun will direct a series adaptation of Charles Burns’ Black Hole, Deadline reports.

Burns’ 12-issue comic book series, published as an anthology by Pantheon in 2005, follows a group of teenagers in 1970s Seattle who are plagued by a grotesque sexually transmitted disease and stalked by a serial killer. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “This volume should expand the cult following of a cutting-edge illustrator.” The anthology won the Harvey Award for best graphic album of previously published work.

Netflix has given a straight-to-series order for the adaptation, to be written and directed by Schoenbrun, known for helming the psychological horror films We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. Their next film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is in postproduction.

Adaptations of Black Hole have been planned before, with Alexandre Aja, David Fincher, and Rick Famuyiwa all attached to direct at various times.

Schoenbrun shared news of the adaptation on the social platform X, writing, “Babe wake up new lifelong dream project just dropped.” 

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.