Development continues on "X-Men" producer Lauren Shuler-Donner's "Metal Men" feature for Warner Bros Pictures."'Metal Men' is much more like 'Men in Black'," she said. "It's miles away from 'X-Men'. It's lighter and it's fun with a lot of CGI ..."
The first 1962 "Metal Men" comic books were written/edited by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Ross Andru/Mike Esposito.
Key stories include "The Flaming Doom", "The Nightmare Menace", "The Day the Metal Men Melted" and "Rain of the Missile Men".As detailed in 1962's "The Flaming Doom", pipe-chewing inventor 'Dr. Will Magnus' created the robots with personality 'responsometers' and an ability to reduce their own composition into 'blobs' of molten metals, shape-shifting at will, into inanimate objects of any size.
The core group is made up of 'Platinum' (Tina), a sensitive female with an uncontrollable crush on Magnus, 'Tin', shy and mild-mannered, 'Gold', the virtuous leader, 'Iron', the strongest, dim-witted Lead' and hot-headed 'Mercury'...
In new stories, Magnus must rescue his Metal Men from destruction, or be doomed to wander forever "Inside In the Inside Out"...
