'Heavy Metal' Gets Heavier with Fincher, Cameron, and Verbinski
Filed under: RumorMonger
Film School Rejects is reporting that Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, has spilled some major beans on the remake of Heavy Metal, the totally over-the-top 1981 sci-fi flick full of boobies, violence, and, some might say, awesomeness.Eastman wrote Heavy Metal 2000, which stars former Penthouse Pet Julie Strain, who is also, incidentally, Eastman's ex-wife. She also voiced Heavy Metal 2000 and starred in the Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 video game. Eastman told FSR,
"I've got breaking news that Fincher and James Cameron are going to be co-executive Producers on the film. Fincher will direct one. Cameron will direct one. Zack Snyder is going to direct one and Gore Verbinski is going to. Mark Osborne and Jack Black from Tenacious D are going to do a comedy segment for the film. Three other directors have agreed but we haven't signed them, but they're equally as jaw-dropping. So we're on cloud nine to be working with such an amazing amount of talent."
Will Heavy Metal benefit from a high-tech remake? Or was part of its appeal the cheesiness of the original? More importantly, will Dio have a part in the Tenacious D segment?
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6-08-2009 @ 1:12PM
juwan808 said...
You had me at James Cameron. Sounds awesome. Can't wait to see it.
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6-08-2009 @ 3:02PM
ML said...
If the participants are into it and bring along their imaginations, I'm interested.
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6-08-2009 @ 5:02PM
warbringerdoom said...
All i know is they better actually have HEAVY METAL MUSIC IN THIS ONE!!!! Watch its going to have a bunch of EMO (think their metal) BANDS IN IT!!! I want EXODUS, KREATOR, LAMB OF GOD, WARBRINGER(of course), SLAYER, PANTERA, DEVILDRIVER, and throw in some B.L.S. for good measure!! Every single one of those has music that would be PERFECT for the world of HEAVY METAL!!!! Also I LOVE A COUPLE OF THE DIRECTORS!!!................. p.s. NO ROB ZOMBIE (that goes for music and directing)!!!!
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6-09-2009 @ 9:38PM
deathmetalgod said...
Heavy Metal magazine was not about heavy metal music. It was a magazine of illustrated science fiction and horror stories, originally published in France as Métal Hurlant, containing adult-oriented stories that were heavy on the graphic art.
The 1981 animated movie grafted rock tunes from Sammy Hagar, Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth, Cheap Trick, Journey and others onto the stories as a marketing gimmick designed to sell a spin-off album. Elmer Bernstein provied the orchestral score, which was finally released on CD last year:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/CDID/396/Heavy-Metal--The-Score/
Personally, I hope Cameron, Fincher, Verbinski and Snyder go back to the source and used their considerable visual talents to create something new in the spirit of the old magazine, rather than brand this as a remake. But I'm with you on the 'no Rob Zombie' front.
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6-09-2009 @ 12:48PM
warbringerdoom said...
UH YAH NO SHIT!!! IF YOU THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH NOT PUTTING METAL IN THERE ...(well you'd be right).... BUT PEOPLE WOULD STILL BE PISSED!! I KNOW ITS A FUCKING MAG. JEBUS!!!! I ALSO KNOW IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HEAVY METAL MUSIC!! YOU'D THINK SOMEONE THAT HAD THE MONIKER DEATHMETALGOD WOULD STILL WANT METAL IN IT?? I GUESS METAL FOR SOME PEOPLE IS A WEEKEND THING. ZING!!!! chill dude i'm joking!!
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