Heavy Metal

"Heavy Metal" is a pretty awesome adult-oriented cartoon that came out in 1981. It is based off a comics magazine and was made into a cartoon about glowing orb that terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

It plays really cool heavy metal rock music during a lot of the animation and there is plenty of gore and nudity. If you watch "South Park" then you might know about it. The episode where Kenny sniffs cat piss to get high takes him to another world where everything deals with boobs and has different animation. This is spoofing "Heavy Metal."



A sequel to the film was made but it had nothing to do with the original and instead tried to make a plot while keeping music, gore and nudity. To say the least "Heavy Metal 2000" was nothing like the original.

Now it seems that Zack Snyder, director of "Watchmen" and "300," is teaming up with David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and Gore Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean") to create a "Heavy Metal" for the new generation.

“‘Heavy Metal,’ is coasting,” Snyder told MTV News of the in-development project. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, I’m excited about it. I love ‘Heavy Metal,’ if that happens it’ll be great.”

When MTV News last checked in on “Heavy Metal,” they asked co-director Fincher if he had any particular stories from the original films or comic magazine he’d like to tackle, to which he mentioned that Snyder had already set his sights on one story in particular. MTV News decided to ask on what story ideas he wanted to include in the new "Heavy Metal."

“[Fincher, Verbinski and I] talked about certain segments, it’s nothing that you would know from the magazine,” hinted Snyder. “It’s a special little one-off thing but it’s pretty cool, that’s all I can really say about it.”

I will definitely be looking for more news on this film because the original "Heavy Metal" is just fun to watch and has influenced so many science fiction films including "Blade Runner" and "The Fifth Element."
More news to come! Catch ya' later!