Film to be shopped to other studios
Paramount lost its balls. That’s the best way to sum up why David Fincher’s Heavy Metal project (announced in March) no longer has a home.
“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,” says EW’s Hollywood Insider.
Of the names who were set to contribute to the new film – consisting of eight to ten genre-bending stories – you had Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), and Neal Asher (Gridlinked). Fincher was going to direct a segment. All of that is now put on hold until he can find a new studio who’s not afraid to rock.
Source: EW
