Heavy Metal remake in the works!

[TomServoFan]

Coming either 2010 or 2011! All four directors David Fincher, Zack Sydner, Gore Verbinski and Guillermo Del Toro will do this new reboot/remake of the cult 1981 animated adult Sci-fi/horror/fantasy anthology classic "Heavy Metal".

I hear this will be an anthology like the original but with some stories true to the popular adult comic magazine. I hear a rumor that the film will use different types of animation from CGI, Stop Motion, Cut-Out (ala "South Park"), Tradtional 2D animation from U.S., Canada and Mexico, Japanese animation and more. This should be interesting as it be a different kind of animation experiment for mainstream theaters and even be the first mainstream R-rated toon since 1999's "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut".

I'm sure gonna miss Elmer Bernstein's grand and magnifiecent score, John Candy as a bald purple-skinned He-Man wannabe who complains about going out with his dork hanging out, or that babe-o-licious white haired beauty Taarna whom every man desires.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

hope they tackle Druuna.

mmm hmmm druuna.

[the goddamn batman]

This actually sounds like a remake worth doing...

Though, I'm not sure it sounds like an actual "remake" so much as a continuing of the initial idea...?

[DonC]

Remake = bad. New stories = good.

[TomServoFan]

Druuna? hmm, who is she? is she hot?

I think they should throw in a Taarna prequel story in this one showing her history from birth to how she got married and lost her husband and kid to how she trained to be the babe that she is now.

Well this is a reimagining that could lead to a new series just like "Batman Begins" did. For other directors on the segments they should have Rob Zombie, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Peter Chung and Yoshika Kajurii ("Ninja Scroll", "Wicked City", "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust") and perhaps Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira"). Tyler Bates ("300") can compose the score with songs by Rob Zombie, Metallica, The Scorpions, Marylin Manson, Slipknot, Insane Clown Posse, Peter Frampton, Enimien, Ozzy Osbourne and more for the soundtrack.

Afterall the original 1981 animated feature is a cult fave and they decided to do a new and fresh remake. Afterall i'm sure we're gonna see knockers and hairpie in different forms of animation including shaved ones.

[DubipR]

I'm going to guess more 2012 since DelToro is working on the Hobbit and the other Tolkien movie, which is 2010 and 2011. But this might have potential if its done correctly instead of making a cartoon where they can show nudity and swear in it because they wanted to.

[Redem]

Oh it will have emo music all over and it will come in video in 21 939

[TomServoFan]

Don't forget there will also be graphic violence and gore like in the original. And wasn't "Heavy Metal" remade as "The Fifth Element"? you can see how similar "Fifth Element" was to "HM".

[the goddamn batman]

For other directors on the segments they should have Rob Zombie, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Peter Chung and Yoshika Kajurii ("Ninja Scroll", "Wicked City", "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust") and perhaps Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira").

Rob Zombie should go back to making shitty music instead of shitty movies.

Tyler Bates ("300") can compose the score with songs by Rob Zombie, Metallica, The Scorpions, Marylin Manson, Slipknot, Insane Clown Posse, Peter Frampton, Enimien, Ozzy Osbourne and more for the soundtrack.

None of those people should be involved with the music end of this.

Afterall i'm sure we're gonna see knockers and hairpie in different forms of animation including shaved ones.

What a strange comment...

Don't forget there will also be graphic violence and gore like in the original. And wasn't "Heavy Metal" remade as "The Fifth Element"? you can see how similar "Fifth Element" was to "HM".

No, but Mobius, who did a lot of work in Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal was a huge influence on it.

[TomServoFan]

Personally i thought Rob Zombie's "Devil's Rejects" was brilliant! one of the best horror comedies ever, a nice mix of dark humor and gore with depravitity like "Last House on The Left". I think he should do one of the stories for the redux.

Do you even know what Hairpie is? watch the original animated movie and "Revenge of the Nerds" to find out.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Druuna? hmm, who is she? is she hot?.

do a google Image search, I'd do it, but I'm at work, and want to keep it that way come Monday.

[Ontir]

I'd love to see Druuna brought to the big screen. Heavy Metal has always been a source of good material. It always amazed me that they didn't follow up with more films. I've also wanted to see companies like Pixar do something that isn't G or PG. I love those films, but there ought not to be a barrier, in terms of content, for them.

[the goddamn batman]

Do you even know what Hairpie is? watch the original animated movie and "Revenge of the Nerds" to find out.

Yeah, dude, I'm not 12. I just thought it was a weird thing to say... maybe that's just me.

[TomServoFan]

Ok i will look her up, if she is sexy then she should be in the new movie.

Afterall, did anyone noticed "The Fifth Element" had the feel of the comics and 1981 animated movie "Heavy Metal" with the Korben Dallas/Harry Canyon thing? afterall HM did also influenced "Akira", "Urotsukidoji" and other adult anime.

[the goddamn batman]

Afterall, did anyone noticed "The Fifth Element" had the feel of the comics and 1981 animated movie "Heavy Metal" with the Korben Dallas/Harry Canyon thing? afterall HM did also influenced "Akira", "Urotsukidoji" and other adult anime.

Yeah, like I said Moebius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud) had a big influence on it. And actually, he worked on it, so, uh, yeah, there's bound to be some similarities.

[StoneGold]

Ok i will look her up, if she is sexy then she should be in the new movie.

Afterall, did anyone noticed "The Fifth Element" had the feel of the comics and 1981 animated movie "Heavy Metal" with the Korben Dallas/Harry Canyon thing? afterall HM did also influenced "Akira", "Urotsukidoji" and other adult anime.

Mostly because Moebius worked on them both.

[howyadoin]

Though, I'm not sure it sounds like an actual "remake" so much as a continuing of the initial idea...?Are we not allowed to call them "sequels" anymore?

Afterall, did anyone noticed "The Fifth Element" had the feel of the comics and 1981 animated movie "Heavy Metal" with the Korben Dallas/Harry Canyon thing?Only on the most simplistic, superficial level.

[TomServoFan]

Yes i notice on Moebius, he's a one-of-a-kind artist. For the voices for this film they should have Quentin Tarantino, Ken Foree, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Alan Oppenheimer (Man-at-arms and Skeletor from the original "He-Man" cartoon), Gary Busey or some other celebrity voices.

[DWEarhart]

Whatever. As long as it's new stories, and it's not as bad as Heavy Metal 2000. That was absolute drek.

[mgs]

Cut-Out (ala "South Park")
it's all digital now

Personally i thought Rob Zombie's "Devil's Rejects" was brilliant! one of the best horror comedies ever, a nice mix of dark humor and gore with depravitity like "Last House on The Left".
I may be wrong, but I don't think either of those had dark humour, they were just meant to be mean and violent.

It always amazed me that they didn't follow up with more films.
there was a Heavy Metal followup movie, but it was direct to video.

Only on the most simplistic, superficial level.
I actually agree with him on that.

[StoneGold]

Only on the most simplistic, superficial level.

I'd say the Moebius art was a bit more than superficial. Fifth Element was pretty heavily inspired by Metal Hurlant, which spun off Heavy Metal. Bruce Willis playing Harry Canyon, a badass future taxi driver, who's name, Korben Dallas, was itself a call to frequent contributor Richard Corben...

[the goddamn batman]

The entire final version of Korben Dallas was based on Harry Canyon...

[Redem]

I'd say the Moebius art was a bit more than superficial. Fifth Element was pretty heavily inspired by Metal Hurlant, which spun off Heavy Metal. Bruce Willis playing Harry Canyon, a badass future taxi driver, who's name, Korben Dallas, was itself a call to frequent contributor Richard Corben...

if it was really inspired by Heavy Metal he would have bed leloo and other girls before the end of the movie:biggrin:

[howyadoin]

I'd say the Moebius art was a bit more than superficial.Enough to call Fifth Element a remake of Heavy Metal? Maybe the problem here is somebody failing to grasp what a remake is.

On a related note, what exactly was Moebius's connection to Harry Canyon? According to IMDB, he contributed characters and situations (as a writer) to the Taarna sequence, and that was his only involvement with the movie. And as far as I know, the Harry Canyon sequence was created for the movie, and not a carryover from the magazine.
Fifth Element was pretty heavily inspired by Metal Hurlant, which spun off Heavy Metal. Bruce Willis playing Harry Canyon, a badass future taxi driver, who's name, Korben Dallas, was itself a call to frequent contributor Richard Corben...Sounds more like a string of coincidences to me. Here's what Wikipedia said:

Korben Dallas was originally intended to be a laborer in a rocket ship factory. As the film went into development in the early 1990s, Besson went on to create Léon starring Jean Reno, while comic book artist Jean-Claude Mézières, who had been hired as a conceptual designer for The Fifth Element, returned to illustrating The Circles of Power, the fifteenth volume in the Valérian and Laureline series. This particular volume featured a character named S'Traks who drives a flying taxicab through the congested air traffic of the vast metropolis on the planet Rubanis. Besson read the book and was inspired to change the character of Dallas to a taxicab driver who flies through a futuristic New York City.
The entire final version of Korben Dallas was based on Harry Canyon...Documentation?

[StoneGold]

Enough to call Fifth Element a remake of Heavy Metal? Maybe the problem here is somebody failing to grasp what a remake is.
Which wasn't what the guy you were responding to said. He said it had the feel of Heavy Metal.
On a related note, what exactly was Moebius's connection to Harry Canyon? According to IMDB, he contributed characters and situations (as a writer) to the Taarna sequence, and that was his only involvement with the movie. And as far as I know, the Harry Canyon sequence was created for the movie, and not a carryover from the magazine.
Sounds more like a string of coincidences to me. Here's what Wikipedia said:


Documentation?

I wasn't saying Moebius worked on the segment, just that he contributed to the Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal vibe to the movie. That it's all interconnected.

[howyadoin]

Which wasn't what the guy you were responding to said. He said it had the feel of Heavy Metal.First he called it a remake. Maybe I shouldn't have taken the comment at face value? I dunno, I've never talked to him prior to today, so when he said "remake", I thought he meant "remake".

I wasn't saying Moebius worked on the segment, just that he contributed to the Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal vibe to the movie. That it's all interconnected.Earlier you implied he worked on both, and that was the connection. All he did in the movie was a small amount of writing for a sequence that had nothing to do with the one we started discussing. The movie wasn't at all like the strips running in the magazine at the time, or like the ones in Metal Hurlant. Den wasn't a goofy coming-of-age comedy in the magazine, for instance.


What it seems to boil down to is that Richard Corben worked on Den, Moebius worked on Taarna, and therefore The Fifth Element is a remake of Harry Canyon. Coincidence.

[StoneGold]

First he called it a remake. Going back, he just asked if it was. But not where you quoted. Where you quoted was just him saying the two had a similar feel.

And I made no implication, that was you assuming things. That said, when you've got a couple of people doing production design on the movie who worked on HM, both movies have a space cabby, and the main character has the same name as a primary contributor to MH. That's a lot of coincidence.

[howyadoin]

Going back, he just asked if it was. But not where you quoted. Where you quoted was just him saying the two had a similar feel.

And I made no implication, that was you assuming things. That said, when you've got a couple of people doing production design on the movie who worked on HM, both movies have a space cabby, and the main character has the same name as a primary contributor to MH. That's a lot of coincidence.Maybe it's an homage.

But seriously, both cab drivers seem like stock crime-fiction characters to me. And Harry Canyon was a cabbie in New York City; there was no "space" involved.

[StoneGold]

Maybe it's an homage.

But seriously, both cab drivers seem like stock crime-fiction characters to me. And Harry Canyon was a cabbie in New York City; there was no "space" involved.

Neither was Korben, till he stopped being a cabbie. The space part was more my shorthand for SF. But yeah, that was my point is that it was an homage. I think the problem here is that the segment you quoted didn't mention anything regarding it being a remake, just in the spirit of. All I'm saying is that Fifth Element had its roots in MH/HM. But not a remake.

[howyadoin]

Neither was Korben, till he stopped being a cabbie. The space part was more my shorthand for SF. But yeah, that was my point is that it was an homage. I think the problem here is that the segment you quoted didn't mention anything regarding it being a remake, just in the spirit of. All I'm saying is that Fifth Element had its roots in MH/HM. But not a remake.Fair enough. I'd say a lot more of it came from Blade Runner than Heavy Metal, but of course Moebius worked on that, too.

[Legato]

Coming either 2010 or 2011! All four directors David Fincher, Zack Sydner, Gore Verbinski and Guillermo Del Toro will do this new reboot/remake of the cult 1981 animated adult Sci-fi/horror/fantasy anthology classic "Heavy Metal".

I hear this will be an anthology like the original but with some stories true to the popular adult comic magazine. I hear a rumor that the film will use different types of animation from CGI, Stop Motion, Cut-Out (ala "South Park"), Tradtional 2D animation from U.S., Canada and Mexico, Japanese animation and more. This should be interesting as it be a different kind of animation experiment for mainstream theaters and even be the first mainstream R-rated toon since 1999's "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut".

I'm sure gonna miss Elmer Bernstein's grand and magnifiecent score, John Candy as a bald purple-skinned He-Man wannabe who complains about going out with his dork hanging out, or that babe-o-licious white haired beauty Taarna whom every man desires.

If anything Im more interested in Del Toro's segment. Glad they are going to keep the gore and the R-Rating.

[DWEarhart]

If anything Im more interested in Del Toro's segment. Glad they are going to keep the gore and the R-Rating.

So, more demons with eyes on their wings. Guillermo Del Toro's good and all, I guess, but I still don't get the big deal behind his style. It's the same stuff - Hellboy visited Pan's Labyrinth - woo woo.

[shades of eternity]

er, this could be good news, but after seeing heavy metal 2000, I'm skeptical.

in spite of everything, western society still equates cartoons = kids at the pursestring levels.

hell, part of the reason heavy metal 2000 blew was the fact that it felt censored (that and "anger management chick").

I think it's going to take a herculean effort by tarintino, rodriguez and del toro together to make such a project happen.

Tarintino has actually done such a comic (it was in kill bill 1) but would need to avoid his talking heads that wonder aimlessly (see deathproof for the worst case of this)

Del toro will go gonzo with the animation budget, but the good news is he can remake it as he desired, provided he gets the original premise.

Rodriguez is probably the best suited of the three, but even he has to be able to keep the other two on track.

I guess the people that did animetrix and that latest batman anthology would also be great choices to get this onboard, but I really would love this to resurect the western animation tradition.

It's embarressing that the big producer of this is France.

[TomServoFan]

Well besides Japan or South Park or Adultswim, i think adult toons need more respect.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone should do a cut-out animated segment for this movie, that could be sweet. Tarantino or Rodriguez should do one of the segments, that could also be kickass.

[meethraa]

So, more demons with eyes on their wings. Guillermo Del Toro's good and all, I guess, but I still don't get the big deal behind his style. It's the same stuff - Hellboy visited Pan's Labyrinth - woo woo.
Guess I'm not the only one.

[TomServoFan]

Oh come on, Guillermo Del Toro is one of the most brilliant, talented and unique filmmakers in recent memory, his "Pan's Labyrinth" was a masterpiece and his "Blade 2" with "Hellboy 1 & 2" were outstanding.

[Legato]

Oh come on, Guillermo Del Toro is one of the most brilliant, talented and unique filmmakers in recent memory, his "Pan's Labyrinth" was a masterpiece and his "Blade 2" with "Hellboy 1 & 2" were outstanding.

Yeah so I dont understand the dislike myself

[howyadoin]

I'm sorta in-between. Loved Pan's Labyrinth, thought Blade 2 was below average, and the first Hellboy was pretty good, but nowhere near great.

[Pinball]

It's embarressing that the big producer of this is France.

Really? I mean, that is where the original Metal Hurlant came from.

[TomServoFan]

Oh come on, who else thought Taarna was one fine piece of ace for a toon? she's up there with Princess Jasmine from Aladdin.

[jesse_custer]

I'm sorta in-between. Loved Pan's Labyrinth, thought Blade 2 was below average, and the first Hellboy was pretty good, but nowhere near great.

You should watch The Devil's Backbone. Great film.