New Heavy Metal animated movie in the works.

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That's right, there's gonna be a remake/reboot/reimagining of the 1981 cult animated fave "Heavy Metal" coming soon. Five filmmakers such as David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro, Gore Verbinski, Jack Black and Zack Sydner are gonna helm this project. I hear a rumor that it will have 9 stories this time with different animation such as 2D, CGI, Clay Animation, Japanese Animation and Stop Motion.

Now this could be an interesting experiment in mature audiences animation. It could prove that not all animation is for kids just like the original HM, "Akira", "Ghost in The Shell", "Urotsukidoji", "Beowulf", "Fire and Ice", "Wizards", "Perfect Blue", "Rock and Rule", "Once Upon a Girl", "Fritz The Cat", and more.

But wasn't Heavy Metal already remade as "The Fifth Element" or did it inspired "The Fifth Element"?
 
You're thinking of the Harry Canyon segment and it seems like it might've been considering they bring it up on a featurette.

Right now it's mostly rumor on the subject of a remake as the last bit of news I heard on it was that Rob Zombie MAY be interested in direction a segment.
 
The enlightened among us (like the folks here on this site) already know that all animation isn't for kids. That fact doesn't have to be proven.
 
I've never seen the original Heavy Metal and am not that interested, but that director list makes it look like this could be one of those sequels superior to the original.

I mean, I've heard James Cameron is going to be doing a segment. JAMES CAMERON.
 
Rob Zombie should do definitely a segment for the film. But i dunno why some people call the original HM pornographic? it's not, it's softcore and mild. If people want harder animated stuff then Heavy Metal they should see "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend".
 
An actual "remake" (recovering Harry Canyon, Den, Taarna, etc.) or just another film under the Heavy Metal banner with all-new stories? I really like the original and would be interested in seeing what they do with this new one, but when I think of Heavy Metal I think of the crude-looking animation, so I'm not sure how I like the idea of using CGI and Anime styles for segments.
 
It'll depend on which stories they choose to adapt from the magazine. Hopefully, they'll picks some good ones and actually stick close to the original style unlike what they did with FAKK2 (Heavy Metal 2000).
 
The original movie was very good.

Over the past three decades, I have seen a lot of different animations and what animation can be used.

And I think the Taarna flight scene, where Taarna is first shown; from flying through the ruins, to the swim, to when she is getting dress on the other side of the pool, is the most beautiful, well paced, thought out animated scenes I have ever seen.

The scene was different in a dozen different ways, though came together into a moment artistic beauty.

When I first saw that scene, I felt like weeping from the scenes beauty.
 
Lines like that annoy me a lot. Usually because it feels like those in the industry think we don't already know that, and have to keep getting the message pounded in us so we won't forget.


I'd rather people watch the original film and note the people who worked on that (too many live-action guys this time around).


I think it was more because for some, HM was one of a kind in terms of showing sex and nudity in a way they never saw before in animation, despite how much more evident it was on the Japan side of things with their familiar "hentai" titles and other projects.

In some way, HM was a 'gateway drug' to anime for a lot of guys, especially in the early 90's when many anime titles often got pimped under the category of being over-the-top violent, sexy and disturbing. We don't see it quite that way anymore but it was a label anime had gotten long until the so-called 'anime boom' happened.


I did too. Nowadays you'd get some exec. scratching his head going "huh?" and demand to put in dialogue or something to break the momentum in a sequence like that.

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The cinematography and pacing in that scene was 'perfect'.

There is no other word to describe it.

The animation, music, and transition from one point of view to another over and over was so dynamic that conveyed the emotions they wanted to express to the viewers.
 
I guess.


This is the problem I have about people taking animation less seriously by labeling it as a genre or style, especially with anime, since the only take the surface elements than to look inside to find out it's the story that makes these films work.
 
2D means traditional animation.

Does Heavy Metal compare to Japanese animation? afterall they are cartoons for mature audiences. I mean HM can be compared to Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Ninja Scroll, Fist of the North Star or even sex-and-gore feasts like Wicked City.

Rob Zombie with James Cameron and Jack Black are other directors for this project, now Will Vinton and Henry Sellick should do a couple of segments.
 
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