{"id":1086,"date":"2008-11-13T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/heavy-metal-happenin\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:54:30","slug":"heavy-metal-happenin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/13\/heavy-metal-happenin\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal Happenin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/david-fincher-zach-synder-and-gore.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Playlist blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\" style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 140%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; color: #cc6600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/david-fincher-zach-synder-and-gore.html\" style=\"display: block; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: #333333\">David Fincher, Zach Synder And Gore Verbinski Officially Named Directors For &#8216;Heavy Metal&#8217;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i290.photobucket.com\/albums\/ll271\/Spencer_Playlist\/heavy_metal_a.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" style=\"color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i290.photobucket.com\/albums\/ll271\/Spencer_Playlist\/heavy_metal_a.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 287px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #cccccc; border-style: solid; padding: 4px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">David Fincher&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0controversial project, the adaptation of the 80&#8217;s semi-skin sci-fi themed mag &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Heavy Metal<\/span>&#8221; has officially\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2008\/11\/12\/an-update-on-that-heavy-metal-update\/\" style=\"color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">announced the acquisition of three directors<\/a>\u00a0who will each be directing a vignette in the film.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Zach<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sydner<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gore Verbinski<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">David Fincher<\/span>, who is also a producer on the project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/kevin-eastman-reveals-david.html\" style=\"color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">were all directors we named back in September<\/a>\u00a0as being possible candidates, but they have just now officially signed on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/heavy_Metal_%28magazine%29\" style=\"color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">magazine<\/a>\u00a0from which the movie is being based off was notable for featuring extremely erotic and violent science fiction stories, and the adaptation is expected to do the same. During the production of &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/span>&#8221; Paramount suddenly dropped the film from its production schedule for at first was assumed to be the dark and sexy nature of the project. But it later came out to be an attempt by\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Paramount\u00a0<\/span>to strong arm Fincher into cutting the running time of &#8216;Button,&#8217; which resulted in Fincher taking &#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; to\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sony<\/span>. The producers promise more director announcements soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 14px; text-transform: uppercase\"><span class=\"post-author\">POSTED BY SPENCER MARTIN\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"post-timestamp\">AT\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/david-fincher-zach-synder-and-gore.html\" class=\"timestamp-link\" title=\"permanent link\" style=\"color: #999999; text-decoration: none\">4:21 PM<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/david-fincher-zach-synder-and-gore.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read the playlist<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Playlist blog David Fincher, Zach Synder And Gore Verbinski Officially Named Directors For &#8216;Heavy Metal&#8217;\u00a0 David Fincher&#8217;s\u00a0controversial project, the adaptation of the 80&#8217;s semi-skin sci-fi themed mag &#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; has officially\u00a0announced the acquisition of three directors\u00a0who will each be directing a vignette in the film.\u00a0Zach\u00a0Sydner,\u00a0Gore Verbinski\u00a0and\u00a0David Fincher, who is also a producer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}