It’s been a good long while since we heard anything from the HEAVY METAL camp. Last we left them, Paramount had dropped the project because it was tussling with executive producer David Fincher. It seemed to gain some traction when Sony became interested, but that was back in September of 2008, so obviously nothing got going there.
Fincher seems determined to make something happen though, because rumblings about the ambitious project are being heard again. According to Deadline, Fincher is still shopping the film around in a “vastly more appealing” form – no doubt the result of a little movie about blue nymphs on a forest-covered planet. In fact, said captain of that little movie, James Cameron, is apparently attached to HEAVY METAL, as is Zack Snyder (both of whom were tentatively involved with the old incarnation of the flick). Snyder just did the animated 3D thing with LEGENDS OF THE GUARDIANS, which opens in September.
So Fincher, Cameron and Snyder are all ready to contribute to a 3D animated epic; one that will evidently retain its source material’s saucy subject matter. That’s drool-worthy, I’d say. An R rating is in the offing, but that could always be changed by a nervous studio looking to make as much money as possible.
Hopefully this thing will find a home soon, so we can all get legitimately exited about it. I know I’d be f*cking pumped if this monster pulls itself together – there are still about 5 other directors needed for segments, but they shouldn’t be hard to gather. At one time, names like Kevin Eastman, Guillermo del Toro and Gore Verbinski were being tossed around.