His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. He also directed the Emmy-nominated HBO film Confirmation starring Kerry Washington.įamuyiwa is repped by WME, Oasis Media Group and Del, Shaw. Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. In addition to writing and directing Dope, Famuyiwa helmed the pilot for the Showtime drama The Chi, which was just renewed for a second season. They next have the sci-fi pic Ad Astra, starring Plan B principal Brad Pitt and directed by James Gray, and the two companies are developing Wrong Answer, a project to be helmed by Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and starring Michael B. It gained a cult following while also receiving a Harvey Award, an Ignatz Award and an Eisner Award.īlack Hole is the latest project that partners New Regency and Plan B, which have previously teamed on the Oscar-winning and thought-provoking films 12 Years a Slave and The Big Short. 18, 2005 There’s nothing funny about high school in this black-and-white comics collection, which should strike a particularly sharp chord among those who endured and survived their adolescent rites of passage in the early 1970s. Cannes Street Style: From Ed Westwick's Workout Attire to Dancer Who 'Wanted to Feel Like a Star'īurns wrote and illustrated 12 issues of Hole over a 10-year period, with the story being collected into graphic novel form in 2005. BLACK HOLE by Charles Burns RELEASE DATE: Oct.

Black Hole by Charles Burns