David Fincher has told MTV that the Heavy Metal comics adaptation so close to his heart is far from dead.

"I’m ready to bat clean-up. I’m ready to do whatever story no one else wants to do." Fincher told MTV news. "We have like twenty-four stories and artwork for it. Zack Snyder is picking one and I think Verbinski has one that he likes. We’re seeing where it ends up. I have time to do one or two and I have dibs on eight or nine, so somewhere in there we’ll figure it out if we can ever get the money together.”

“There’s no Blade Runner without Heavy Metal. There’s probably no Alien." Fincher adds, referring to the contributions of Heavy Metal's Jean Giraud Moebius to the production design of Ridley Scott's 1979 film. " It was such a fertile breeding ground. Wherever you go in the world you go to any computer animation company and there lying around is ‘Heavy Metal’ magazine.”

Fincher is hoping that Heavy Metal V2.0 will push the envelope of digital animation beyond its current confines.

“The world will at some point be ready for something other than singing, furry f-king animals”.

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Fincher finding Heavy Metal a hard sell

19 December 2008