November 1, 2005 - Director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, The Fountain) is in talks with Paramount Pictures to helm their newly-acquired adaptation of author Shannon Burke's forthcoming novel Black Flies.
The novel, which does not yet have a publishing deal in place, follows a
young man working as an EMT in Harlem while preparing to go to med school. On
the job, he experiences various crises and stressful misadventures which are
exacerbated when his mentor makes a wrong decision in a life-or-death situation.
Black Flies and Burke's previous novel Safelight both benefit from her own experience working as an emergency medical technician.
The studio is reportedly seeking a screenwriter to adapt the book. Assuming talks with Aronofsky proceed according to plan, the director would supervise the script-writing process.
