‘Black Hole’ Graphic Novel Adaptation Series in the Works at Netflix

Netflix has officially picked up Black Hole, a new one-hour series based on Charles Burns’ bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novels. The streamer won the project in a competitive bidding situation and has given it a straight-to-series order.

The adaptation hails from creator, writer, and director Jane Schoenbrun, with production from New Regency and Plan B. New Regency will co-produce the series alongside Netflix.

Shoenbrun is best known for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, two feature films that they both wrote and directed. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is their next major project, set for release in 2026 on Mubi, and is currently in post-production.

They teased the project just yesterday on X:

Executive producers include Erin Levy, Plan B, and Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, and Laura Delahaye for New Regency, with Charles Burns also serving as an executive producer.

What is Black Hole about?

Charles Burns is best known as a comic book artist and writer whose work blends surrealism with the precise linework of classic comic art. While Black Hole is undoubtedly his most famous work, first published in 2005, his other works include X’ed Out, The Hive, Sugar Skull, Big Baby, and, most recently, Final Cut.

Set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s, Black Hole follows a group of teenagers facing a strange sexually transmitted disease that causes bizarre physical mutations. Some try to hide it, some are terrified of catching it, and others simply drift through the chaos. As tensions rise and murders begin, the story becomes a haunting reflection of adolescence in a time when hippie ideals were fading, glam rock was emerging, and the line between beauty and horror was disturbingly thin.

The official logline for the series reads, “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.”

This is just the latest book getting an adaptation on Netflix. Over the summer, we took a look at all the other titles that Netflix has optioned with the aim of producing either movies or series. Are you excited for this upcoming adaptation of Black Hole? Let us know in the comments down below.