Darren Aronofsky is currently in talks to direct Paramount Pictures
Black Flies, says Variety.
The feature is based on the novel by Shannon Burke, which follows a young man who becomes an emergency medical technician in Harlem, a temporary stop before he enters medical school.
There, he experiences a range of crises and stressful misadventures, including a mentor who has been numbed to the point that he makes a wrong decision in a life-and-death situation.