Uber director David Fincher is set to make a new animated anthology feature based on the long-running sci-fi and fantasy magazine 'Heavy Metal'. According to Variety the film will contain eight or nine segments, similar to the film of the 1980s, with a different director shaping each segment.
Fincher will produce the segment along with the magazine's publisher (and 'Ninja Turtle' co-creator) Kevin Eastman, and Tim Miller, head of Blur Stuidos the film's animation house.
All three men will direct segments in the film.
'Heavy Metal' was previously made into an anthology film in 1981 and featured adaptations of stories by Richard Corben and Bernie Wrightson. Eastman took another pass at reviving the animated tradition of the magazine in 2000 with the feature-length 'F.A.K.K.2: Heavy Metal 2000', which featured a story based on his 'Melting Pot' comics and a lead character built around Julie Strain.
This is the third comic-based project FIncher has recently become attached to, with announcements regarding Bendis and Andreyko's 'Torso' and Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' being recently rolled out.
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