Paramount Prepping New HEAVY METAL

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Friday, March 14, 2008
Source: Variety

Paramount Pictures will make a new animated film based on the '70s sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, reports Variety. Director David Fincher is spearheading the project inspired by the magazine which spawned the original 1981 animated film and the 2000 sequel. 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. Tim Miller, whose Blur Studios will handle the animation, is also directing a segment for what is being conceived as an R-rated, adult-themed feature. The studio will lock in the other directors shortly. Fincher, Eastman and Miller will produce.

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.

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Comments/Responses

AzuLTaLoN • Mar 14, 2008, 01:36am •

as long as it's more like the original 1981 version, unlike the crap that is heavy metal 2000.

exfan • Mar 14, 2008, 02:07am •

i agree, it must bt the way be a movies, with vin diesel will be perfect

metalwater • Mar 14, 2008, 02:37am •

And guess who just mentioned that the studios should do a Heavy Metal film, just within the last couple of weeks or so??? Don't say it, sssshhhh...you can thank me later.

Of course I was hoping for a live action version of Heavy Metal: Fakk 2...aka Heavy Metal 2000...and of course a live action version of the original film...but I guess, this will do.

SONYMANswallows • Mar 14, 2008, 03:23am •

Thanks for remembering ,e Metalwater, I am touched.

2000 was lame and that is an understatement. But maybe they can use Michael Ironside in voice. It needs to be a couple of stories and no more of this hour and a half or less bull shit that most animated films are running at. Maybe they can use John Candy's daughter for a voice, she works at Second City in Chicago and lives in his old building above his former apartment.

Dazzler • Mar 14, 2008, 04:33am •

This will be good new to a lot of friends of mine. And it's R? Cool. Banged!

Johnzilla • Mar 14, 2008, 04:49am •

I love Heavy Metal. Thought Heavy Metal 2000 stunk because it wasn't an anthology film like the first.
Glad to see that they learned their lesson.
Hope this new anthology film has the same taste as the 1981 film.

Kevn • Mar 14, 2008, 05:23am •

Interesting... because it was just announced yesterday that the previously unreleased score to the original film - written by Elmer Bernstein - is going to be (finally) released in a few weeks.

WISEGUY562 • Mar 14, 2008, 06:22am •

I love it. And by their description they will be going to be influenced by the sort of stories and art that run in the magazine, so of course it has to be rated R and it appears that it will be an anthology like the original. And with 8 to 9 segments it better run more than 90 minutes.
Although HM2000 wasn't great by any means I thought it was ok and at a time when adult sci/fi animation is pretty hard to come by (excluding anime, which I hate), I welcomed it.

Whiskeymovie • Mar 14, 2008, 07:05am •

Fincher doing a Heavy metal movie.....COOL!!...One way ticket to midnight, call this Heavy Metal....Can't wait to see what they do with this.

monkeyfoot • Mar 14, 2008, 07:35am •

I was never a fan of either movie, nor the magazine particularly. It always seemed like you had to high on something to get it. Plus the movies' animation always look sort of amatuerish . But with the top-notch people behind this, I'm all for it.
Metalwater, I keep saying you've got the high midichlorian level - just mind tricking studios to do your bidding :-)

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