Back in March it was reported that nu-auteur of the dark and twisted mien, David Fincher, would be one of the directors involved in remaking the animated hesher classic, “Heavy Metal.” In fact, he was spearheading the project.
The original animated “Heavy Metal” in 1981 became quite the cult-film boasting a lot of the similarly garish airbrushed art hosted on the side of many a van in the late ’70s. It also brandished much of the near soft-core porn, erotica and violence that made the magazine so popular with adolescent boys of the ’70s and ’80s fond of science-fiction and masturbation (the hesher-heavy rock soundtrack that featured Dio-era Sabbath, Sammy Hagar, Nazareth, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad and many other).
However! According to Entertainment Weekly, Paramount, who were funding the project, have pulled out because their execs felt the movie was “too risque for mainstream audience.” Fincher does love his edge-pushing trangressiveness (see some of the weirdo shit in “Seven,” hello Lust! “That disease spreading whore!”), but maybe he was gonna make this one extra fucked up and Paramount balked?
Either way the project is now stalled and in limbo until Fincher and his producers find a new studio to back it. However, one producer is pretty certain it will happen one day once they can find some unscrupulous studio that peddles in that sort of immoral smut (dudes, hello, have you not called Lion’s Gate??)