Last weekend, MTV's Josh Horowitz sat down with "Year One" stars Jack Black and Michael Cera for an interview. Many things were discussed, including birthdays, pre-history survival tips and -- everyone's favorite topic -- "Heavy Metal." Josh also asked Black about the recent talk surrounding him and a certain "Star Trek" director.
What talk am I referring to, you ask? It wasn't much really. Some rumors popped up that Black and Abrams had discussed the possibility of the actor stepping into the still-unwritten "Star Trek" sequel as Harry Mudd. AICN debunked the Mudd rumor, but gleaned no further information. That's where the below clip comes in: the discussions involved Black doing a musical comedy which Abrams will produce. Watch for the (admittedly brief) details.
FROM SPLASH PAGE: How do you up the ante when you already have three of the hottest directors on the planet locked, loaded and ready for your film? In the case of "Heavy Metal," you bring aboard yet another fan-favorite filmmaker and a world-famous musician-actor hybrid.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman, also the owner and publisher of "Heavy Metal" magazine, has announced that "Avatar" director James Cameron and Tenacious D rocker Jack Black are joining the ranks of "Heavy Metal," the multi-directorial comic book adaptation from the likes of Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski and David Fincher (who will also serve as an executive producer).
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I've pretty much been chasing another interview with David Fincher since the moment my last conversation with him ended nearly a year ago. Sure, his suffer no fools rep strikes fear in anyone in my line of work but the truth is I found Fincher to be a charming and thoughtful subject on the first go round. Now with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" set for release I got Fincher to sit down for another 30 minutes (not quite enough time to get into "Alien 3" alas....).
You can check out the bulk to the Fincher interview here (including a whole batch of exclusive photos) where he reveals more about his plans for a "Fight Club" musical than ever before. The director likens the stage version to "a rock show — a lot of projection, a lot of computer-generated imagery, a lot of conveyor belts...really cinematic but really twisted." A twisted David Fincher work?!? You don't say...
Be sure to check out our reports on what Fincher told me about his Keanu Reeves "Chef" project, the long gestating "Heavy Metal" flick, and his plans for his adaptation of "Torso," aka what you never knew about Elliot Ness.
FROM SPLASH PAGE: We're extremely excited about the announcement that David Fincher, Zack Snyder and Gore Verbinski still intend to direct segments of a new "Heavy Metal" animated feature, but it's probably for the best that we temper our enthusiasm with a bit of caution. According to Fincher, the undoubtedly awesome film has yet to move on from the development stage.
"We're still trying to get that made," Fincher told MTV News.
Even so, does the director, hot off the critical success of his new film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", have any particular "Heavy Metal" stories that he would like to adapt to the screen?
Read more of David Fincher's thoughts on a new "Heavy Metal" animated feature at Splash Page.MTV.com.
