Lord of the Black Flies

Darren Aronofsky director (of Pi and the devastating Requiem for a Dream) will direct Sopranos' writer Todd Kessler's adaptation of "Black Flies," a novel by Shannon Burke, for Paramount.

The Hollywood Reporter: "The novel follows a young man who becomes an emergency medical technician in Harlem as a temporary stop before he enters medical school. While there, he experiences a range of crises and stressful misadventures while under the eye of a mentor who has been numbed to the point that he makes a wrong decision in a life-or-death situation."--Kim