Almost 30 years after it first rocked movie theaters, Paramount is bringing Heavy Metal back to the silver screen. Director David Fincher, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator and Heavy Metal Magazine owner Kevin Eastman, and Tim Miller of Blur Studios will direct some of the individual animated segments that will make up the movie.
Per Variety, the film “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.”
Fincher, who recently directed Zodiac and the upcoming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has quite the busy plate in front of him … he’s adapting the Charles Burns graphic novel Black Hole and is developing Torso and The Killer for Paramount. This will be the third Heavy Metal movie; a sequel to the 1981 flick came out in 2000. Like its predecessors, no doubt this one will feature a very loud soundtrack as well … I wonder what Sammy Hagar’s up to?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am
i didn’t see the second one but i loved the first one. the second one i heard was so bad i couldn’t bring myself to watch it.
instead i watched TITAN AE and pretended that was heavy metal 2.
that was a great movie!!
March 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Great news. There needs to be more R-rated animated features around.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:18 am
That’s what was missing from my life – a little more erotic violence! Thanks, Fincher and Eastman!
March 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Fincher is attached to like 20 movies right now.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
second one was awful
March 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
second one was awful
Comment by frank
Except for the lack of proper character establishment, I thought it was decent B-grade material.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
More like the first movie and less like the second, please.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
This news just made my day. I would love to go to a midnight showing of this and see classical and computer animated segments featuring content that world class animators could never explore on the big screen during their day jobs. A decent soundtrack with a variety of artists would be the cherry topping. Geared up, I am.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
“computer animated segments featuring content that world class animators could never explore on the big screen during their day jobs”
Sign. Me. Up.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’d personally rather see Fincher working on Torso or Black Hole first and maybe act as an exec. producer on Heavy Metal.
Hasn’t Torso been in “development” for a decade now?
March 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hooray!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Oh yeah ! Very happy ! Cant wait to see that, both Heavy Metal were awesome movies.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
…have you guys *seen* the first Heavy Metal movie lately? Adolescant wish fulfillment fantasy at its more puerile and pointless.
…which is why I can’t wait to see this film. David Fincher can make me sit through anything! ^_^
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 am
PLEASE Bring back the charecters from the first movie plz!! i beg of you P L E A S E !!!!for the love of ooolahtekk and those dudes on the nighborg.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
animation has come a long way since the other films… this one should look amazing. i wonder if kevin eastman’s segment will look like his art style. that would be sweet.
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