I heard somewhere that Robert Rodriguez has gotten new rights to new Heavy Metal animated movie anthology, i hear this will ignore HM 2000 and continue where the first cult classic left off. I think this could be cool, loved the first movie since i was 12 when i saw it on Cinemax with other cool cult not for kids animated movies like Rock & Rule, American Pop, Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival and Hey Good Lookin' as they became faves of mine and HM is one of the best comic based movies. And been a fan of the comic magazine since i was 17 when i was finally old enough to buy them even the old ones at comic cons and comic stores. I hope they bring back that hottie known as Taarna, she's everyone's fave animated warrior chick lol. I think the new movie should have a variety of different animation in each segment, sort of an animated experiment like never before. I think each story should be in a different style from 2D animation, Flash, sketchy, Clayanimation, CGI, Stop Motion and anime. For directors they should have Quentin Tarantino, Zack Snyder, Will Vinton (California Raisins and Claymation specials fame), Henry Selleck (Nightmare Before Christmas with Paranroman and Coraline), Guillermo del Toro, Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame, Yoshiaka Kawajari (Ninja Scroll with Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and Wicked City fame), Bruce Timm, Michael Bay (Doing his animation debut) and Rob Zombie do the stories.
This one will be rated R like the original i assure you and this will definitely be an animated movie not for the kiddies like the original. d do you like my ideas for this third movie plus ideal directors for each segment including different animations in each one especially Clayanimation to having Will Vinton do it?
While I also quite like the old Heavy Metal movie as well, I would not like to have the movie split up so much. If Rodriguez is going to direct it, he should direct the whole thing. I'm sure Tarrantino will have his hand in it somehow as well, and that's fine. But to have each segment with a different director AND animation style would make it be too disjointed. I think about the Batman: Gotham Knights movie that was a bunch of short stories strung together. I don't find that to be a good way of telling a story.
It's a way of telling a bunch of short stories. Which is what Heavy Metal is. There has to be a variety of short stories involved, otherwise, what's the point? Heavy Metal isn't a property or a story. It's a format. A format for a bunch of different artists to tell a wide variety of stories that aren't related to each other. I don't know if I'd go as far as having a claymation segment, but I guess it would depend on the creators involved.
Fair enough. But even the first movie, though it was a series of short stories, had a common, unifying theme of the Loc-Nar being there to cause problems. I think that a consistent animation style helped to make that more clear. Changing the art each time IMO makes it harder to see it as a cohesive whole. Just as you're getting used to one style, it changes, preventing you from really getting immersed in the movie.
How is this going to fit in with the french Heavy Metal television series that's apparently happening? I'd much rather the original idea of mostly unrelated animated vignettes done by different directors/studios than HM2000, though.
That was just an artificial device superimposed over the whole thing that no one cared about. Plus, it was stolen from Den, anyway.
That doesn't really matter. It was a good story telling device that helped to tie together the string of short stories so that it actually culminated into something.
Hahahaha... Seriously though, I'd see this in a second. Loved the originals, and in the worst case I'll have lost a couple hours of my life & maybe even have see boobs in the process.
For the stop motion sequence i think Henry Selleck who did Paranorman, Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas would be perfect for it as i like his style. Zack Snyder can do the Flash animation sequence while Michael Bay can do the Claymation sequence besides Will Vinton. Who thinks Yoshiaka Kawajari of Ninja Scroll/Wicked City/Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust should do the anime sequence? Did anyone else grew up with the original movie? i did and who else discovered it on Cinemax back in the 80s or early 90s as a kid especially stuff like Vampire Hunter D, American Pop, Hey Good Looking, Robot Carnival and Rock and Rule? i adore those too and became favorites. Who also thought Taarna was quite the hottie? she makes Jessica Rabbit look like Ursula, lol. I had a crush on her when i was 12 and she was quite the female warrior too.
