Heavy Metal magazine fans...

[DavePS3]

This in this morning from Variety...

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By MICHAEL FLEMING
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Paramount Pictures will make an animated film inspired by the '70s sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, with director David Fincher spearheading the project.
"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 mag 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 helmer.

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 mag previously spawned a 1981 animated feature and 2000 sequel.

Fincher, who directed "Zodiac" for Par, recently wrapped the Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett starrer "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which Par releases Dec. 19. Fincher recently became attached to direct Paramount's adaptation of the Charles Burns graphic novel "Black Hole" and is also developing "Torso" and "The Killer" for the studio.

Miller is writing, directing and producing a feature-length version of "Rockfish." Blur has also been responsible for animating such videogames as "Transformers: The Game," based on the hit pic from DreamWorks and Paramount.

[DetroitSportsFan]

This should be in the Movies & TV section.

[atomik kinder]

While I liked the first one, some of the animation in it was not the greatest. Hopefully they can get some good stuff done. The second movie was crap. So is this going to be Heavy Metal 3 or Heavy Metal 2010?

[DavePS3]

Probably true, Detroit but I plead wishful thinking... that EVERYTHING will end up being on Blu'.

[DefTechPioElite]

I just hope they put updated "heavy metal" in the movie and not crap like Nickelback or Creed and call it "heavy metal." The music was a huge part of the original animated movie so they need to not screw that up. I would expect to see(read:hear) Avenged Sevenfold, Iron Maiden, old Metallica(pre-black), Trivium and probably Disturbed. I would hope to hear some non-mainstream metal though, like Abigail Williams, Skinless and The Black Dahlia Murder. Black and Death Metal FTW!
On another note; Kevin Eastman? Wow. It is awesome to hear that name again. I was a HUGE TMNT fan as a kid. Like, HUGE. Some of the original comics were effing amazing. So, it's good to know he is active. I wonder if Peter Laird is up to anything.

[Grubert]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

This should be in the Movies & TV section.

True. Moving.

[Blu Falcon]

I hope this lives up the original Heavy Metal film, which I loved. Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 (Heavy Metal 2000) was such a huge disappointment for me.