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The film is Heavy Metal and it has been doing the round for quite sometime now. But in the last few days there has been news that a couple of directors want to direct some segments of the film. But David Fincher who was associated with the film has been having a brawl over his upcoming release the Curious Case of Benjamin Button has sort of stalled the project. Now there is some news that Fincher is directing one, Guillermo del Toro wants to direct one, Zack Snyder wants to direct one, Gore Verbinski wants to direct one. Three new exciting names to add to the list make this another hot project yet again.

Regarding the studio change, Eastman, who owns the Heavy Metal magazine, told The Playlist that Paramount said “‘until you step up to do what we want you to do with Benjamin, we’re not going to greenlight any other of [your] movies.’ And David said, ‘Fine, fuck you, I’m going to set up [Heavy Metal] somewhere else,’ so we jumped over to Sony and set it up there.” If Fincher does get a total of 9 fantastic directors to each put together a segment for the film, this may be a bigger loss for Paramount than they initially thought. The film was described as an R-rated, adult-themed feature obviously inspired by the cult magazine’s erotic and violent storylines and images. That brings us to today’s update on directors.

In a separate intervial to rgbFILTER that “we have a $50m budget, we’re doing a full-blown production” before mentioning a few more directors. We previously confirmed that David Fincher, Kevin Eastman himself, and Blur Studios’ Tim Miller were all directing a segment for the film. Now Eastman says that Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski (of the Pirates of the Caribbean films), and Guillermo del Toro are all interested as well.