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News

Fincher's Heavy Metal Muted

Source:EW
July 10, 2008


Paramount lost its balls. That's the best way to sum up why David Fincher's Heavy Metal project (announced in March) no longer has a home.

"Tim Miller, whose Blur Studio is handling the animation, says he and Fincher, along with current Heavy Metal publisher Kevin Eastman, are now shopping the film to other studios because Paramount's new production execs felt the movie was too risque for mainstream audiences," says EW's Hollywood Insider.

Of the names who were set to contribute to the new film - consisting of eight to ten genre-bending stories - you had Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), and Neal Asher (Gridlinked). Fincher was going to direct a segment. All of that is now put on hold until he can find a new studio who's not afraid to rock.

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Posted by: Triad on July 10, 2008 at 15:03:51

God I hope that they find a studio willing to take the risk...I think that it'll pay off handsomely for them. I know that I and whole generation of fanboys (& girls) are feverishly waiting for this after the disappointing Heavy Metal 2000 flopped. Fincher is just the man for the job too, in my opinion. MY FINGERS ARE CROSSED!


Posted by: Steven Millan on July 10, 2008 at 15:23:07

I never had no idea that Daivd Fincher and Kevin Eastman are collaborating on a new "Heavy Metal"(animated feature)movie,for let's all cross our fingers and strongly hope that it lives up to the 1981 film(which,along with Ralph Bakshi's duo of "Hey,Good Looking" and "American Pop",was the final theatrical adult audience animated film in the U.S.).

And the less said about the mediocre "Heavy Metal 2000"(which was just one sole story,and had B movie diva Julie Strain as its main attracting feature),the better.


Posted by: adamant877 on July 11, 2008 at 13:29:53

I agree with you on this one, Steven!
Too often the studio execs, and the producers of the material don't understand or appreciate the NEED to expand creatively... All that they can see are risk factors, statistical data, and dollar signs.
This sounds like a great project, and you're right about Bakshi... Noone has produced American made, adult animated material of that calibre in the last few decades!
(And let's not forget "Fire and Ice", that was KICK-ASS!!)


Posted by: rogue trooper on July 11, 2008 at 13:39:18

Maybe Lionsgate or Dimension, who are the more gutsy of studios, will take it.


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