We’ve known for awhile now that some of Hollywood’s most powerful genre directors are collectively working on a new Heavy Metal movie, though when or how it might happen has remained well hidden. Well add another name to the Heavy Metal director list, which already included David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Zack Snyder, and Kevin Eastmen. Now James Cameron is getting involved.
It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes director Kevin Eastman who leaked the news to FSR. Eastman tells them, “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.”
They’re not stopping there either. Eastman says they have three more big name directors to announce at some point down the road.
So what the hell is Heavy Metal? Originally it was a magazine that mixed science fiction and fantasy storytelling with hand-drawn erotica. Think bosomy babes in various, clingy, sci-fi outfits. Later, in 1981, it became an animated movie composed of short science fiction and fantasy stories adapted from the magazine. With experienced, R-rated genre directors like Snyder and Cameron involved in the new version, it will hopefully lose none of the edgy pin-up flavor of previous incarnations.
