There are a lot of news floating around the web at the moment regarding film maker David Fincher. The Zodiac director’s new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has yet to show in its entirety but festival goers at Telluride were treated to twenty minutes of footage that left a sour taste in a few mouths. General consensus: not great but it’s Fincher and we’ll wait to pass judgment. Good call.
To continue with the drama, Fincher seems to be having problems with the studio regarding the cut of the film; it’s fairly long and the studio wants it cut down. The ensuring argument has had an effect on one of Fincher’s other projects. Paramount, who is behind Benjamin Button, was in line to produce Fincher’s vision of Heavy Metal but now that the studio and director are in the heat of a disagreement, Fincher has jumped ship and taken the project with him.
I’ve previously salivated at the thought of a Fincher produced film full of boobs, heavy metal music, sex and violence but now that I’ve seen some of the other names potentially attached to the project, I’m even more excited. According to a recent interview with Kevin Eastman, editor and publisher of “Heavy Metal” magazine, alongside Fincher himself, Guillermo Del Toro, Gore Verbinski and Zack Snyder have all expressed interest in directing portions of the project. Given Verbinski and Snyder are not the world’s best directors but it’s fair to say that they both have distinct styles and vision that could lend itself well to the project.
In other Fincher news, the folks at IGN are running an interesting story that Fincher’s next project will be the long-in-development adaptation of the Brian Michael Bendis’ graphic novel “Torso” which tells the story of a serial killer who leaves behind the torsos of his victims. I’m not 100% sure as to the accuracy of the second story. Apparently, this project is also being being set up at Paramount but I’m not sure why Fincher would involve himself with the studio after moving away with Heavy Metal. Hopefully news will be a little more detailed once the dust settles.
This has been your Fincher news minute.
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September 5, 2008
So is the Fincher Heavy Metal going to be live action or animated like before?
September 5, 2008
I don’t recall seeing any information on whether it would be live action or animated. I’ll look around and see what I can find but I’m assuming, by the directors that have shown interested, that it’ll be live-action.
September 5, 2008
Looks like it’s animated and del Toro will not be involved http://chud.com/articles/articles/16220/1/NO-HEAVY-METAL-FOR-DEL-TORO/Page1.html
September 5, 2008
And FTW, Matt Damon has been cast in “Torso”