Jul 9 2008 07:44 PM ET

David Fincher's 'Heavy Metal' remake a no-go at Paramount

Categories: Movie Biz

Not even a bigshot like David Fincher could keep Heavy Metal at Paramount. The Zodiac director, who is currently putting the finishing touches on his highly-anticipated Brad Pitt movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has been spearheading an edgy remake of the 1981 R-rated animated flick inspired by the 1970s fantasy magazine of the same name. But Tim Miller, whose Blur Studio is handling the animation, says he and Fincher, along with current Heavy Metal publisher Kevin Eastman, are now shopping the film to other studios because Paramount’s new production execs felt the movie was too risque for mainstream audiences. The project is an amalgam of erotic and violent storylines penned by well-known sci-fi scribes like Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), and Neal Asher (Gridlinked). The concept is to use eight to 10 of these shorts in a single movie with each segment helmed by a different director (Fincher is on deck to direct one). Though things are on hold until another studio picks it up, Miller is confident the film will eventually see the light of day. “David really believes in the project. It’s just a matter of time,” Miller says.

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  • Cajunsblues

    sometimes i wonder if they can ever have an original movie in Hollywood without making an “edgy remake”. too few original scripts are coming anymore.
    but the geeky side of me i does want to see it anyway. :)

  • Kev

    I wouldn’t really call this a “remake”. Heavy Metal is a brand if anything.

  • J.

    I wouldn’t call this a remake either, unless the directors and writers are rehashing all the previously told stories of the original. I certainly hope not.

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