Heavy Metal Returns With Cameron, Snyder & Verbinski
By George 'El Guapo' Roush on
June 06, 2009
I loved the Heavy Metal magazine growing up. The amazing artwork, fantasy and science fiction worlds and the combination of hot chicks and violence made great reads for a young kid. I remember my father taking me to see the first Heavy Metal movie in theaters when I was a little kid. Probably not the most responsible film to take a young kid to, but I loved every minute of it.
Heavy Metal 2000 was a bit of a disappointment, and I'd always wondered of a new Heavy Metal film would ever get made. Film School Rejects has news that not only is there a new Heavy Metal film, but that a bunch of famous directors have attached themselves to do segments. FSR has more:
Kevin Eastman of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame had this to say:
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.”
Click on any of the magazine covers below to read the rest.
While I'm glad that Heavy Metal is making a comeback, I was kind of hoping the movie would lay ground for some new directors. Give some up and coming filmmakers a chance at directing their own segments. While I like Cameron, Snyder, Fincher and Verbinski's work, with something like Heavy Metal, there's nothing wrong with doing the movie using fresh, undiscovered talent. As long as the stories are good, why not give someone else a shot? On the flipside, perhaps that's what doomed Heavy Metal 2000.
Maybe if this film is successful they could try going in that direction. Until then, it appears as if this Heavy Metal movie is going to have a lot of big names attached to it. Let's just hope they keep it a hard R and pack it with all of the violence, sex, drug use and humor that made the 1981 film such a classic.
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