"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman, publisher of illustrated adult fantasy art magazine "Heavy Metal", said director/producer James "Avatar" Cameron will co-executive produce Eastman's developing "Heavy Metal" animated film adaptation, with Cameron interested in directing one episode:
Other creatives interested in developing single animated episodes are directors David "Fight Club" Fincher and Zack "Watchmen" Snyder. Mark "Kung Fu Panda" Osborne is also interested in developing a comedic segment with Jack Black.
"Heavy Metal" magazine originated in the mid-1970's, when publisher Leonard Mogel of "National Lampoon" fame was in Paris to start a French edition of NL and discovered the sex/violence French science-fantasy magazine "Métal Hurlant".
Mogel licensed a US version, retitled it "Heavy Metal" and debuted his glossy mag in 1977, displaying English translations of graphic stories previously published in "Métal Hurlant" by Enki Bilal, Jean Giraud (aka 'Moebius'), Phillippe Druillet, Milo Manara, Richard Corben and Philippe Caza.
The magazine later ran the popualr series "RanXerox", by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore.
In 1986, "Heavy Metal" dropped back to a quarterly schedule, going bi-monthly in 1989. Eastman purchased the magazine in 1992, saying that next to artist Jack "King" Kirby the European artists he saw for the first time in "Heavy Metal" magazine were the biggest artistic influences in his life.
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