Another version of 'Heavy Metal'..?

[Largest of Als]

March 14, 2008


Paramount Pictures will make an animated film inspired by the '70s sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, with director David Fincher spearheading the project, reports Variety.

Heavy Metal will be stamped by the erotic and violent storylines and images that remain the trademark of a magazine that debuted in the U.S. in 1977. The magazine introduced the works of American artists and writers such as Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H.R. Giger.

The film will consist of eight or nine individual animated segments, each of which will be directed by a different director.

Fincher will direct one of the segments; Kevin Eastman, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator who is now owner and publisher of Heavy Metal, will direct another. So will Tim Miller, whose Blur Studios will handle the animation for what is being conceived as an R-rated, adult-themed feature.

Fincher, Eastman and Miller will produce the film. The studio will lock in the other directors shortly. The magazine previously spawned a 1981 animated feature and 2000 sequel.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42950

I didnt see the 2000 film, but I've got the original somewhere...

Al

[MarkMono]

...and death will come from the sky.

[Stew]

This comes just as www.screenarchives.com releases the original HEAVY METAL score masterpiece by Elmer Bernstein.The fact that they are going for anthology short stories makes me interested in it. The sequel failed because it was too long and it was really hard to keep interested in such a cheesy story.