Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page - Movies

Basic Information

Release Date - March 15, 2019 on the Netflix streaming media service for season 1. May 14, 2021 for season 2. May 20, 2022 for season 3. May 15, 2025 for season 4.

Running Time - ~577min. (4 seasons, 45 episodes, 6-22min. each)

Netflix Maturity Rating - TV-MA (Language, Violence, Nudity, Gore, Smoking)

Distributor - Netflix

Links:
Netflix
The Internet Movie Database
Wikipedia

Episodes:
s01e01 "Three Robots" 12min | Director: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Blow Studio
s01e02 "Beyond The Aquila Rift" 17min | Director: Léon Bérelle, Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, & Maxime Luère | Story By: Alastair Reynolds | Animation: Unit Image
s01e03 "Ice Age" 11min | Director: Tim Miller | Story By: Michael Swanwick | Animation: Digic Pictures & Atomic Fiction
s01e04 "Sonnie's Edge" 17min | Director: Dave Wilson | Story By: Peter F. Hamilton | Animation: Blur Studio
s01e05 "When The Yogurt Took Over" 6min | Director: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Blow Studio
s01e06 "The Secret War" 16min | Director: István Zorkóczy | Story By: David Amendola | Animation: Digic Pictures
s01e07 "Sucker Of Souls" 13min | Director: Owen Sullivan | Story By: Kirsten Cross | Animation: Studio La Cachette
s01e08 "The Witness" 12min | Director: Alberto Mielgo | Story By: Alberto Mielgo | Animation: Pinkman. TV
s01e09 "Suits" 17min | Director: Franck Balson | Story By: Steven Lewis | Animation: Blur Studio
s01e10 "Good Hunting" 17min | Director: Oliver Thomas | Story By: Ken Liu | Animation: Red Dog Culture House
s01e11 "The Dump" 11min | Director: Javier Recio Gracia | Story By: Joe Lansdale | Animation: Able & Baker
s01e12 "Shape-Shifters" 16min | Director: Gabriele Pennacchioli | Story By: Marko Kloos | Animation: Blur Studio
s01e13 "Fish Night" 10min | Director: Damian Nenow | Story By: Joe Lansdale | Animation: Platige Image
s01e14 "Helping Hand" 10min | Director: Jon Yeo | Story By: Claudine Griggs | Animation: Axis Studios
s01e15 "Alternate Histories" 8min | Director: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Sun Creature Studio
s01e16 "Lucky 13" 15min | Director: Jerome Chen | Story By: Marko Kloos | Animation: Sony Pictures Imageworks
s01e17 "Blindspot" 9min | Director: Vitaliy Shushko | Story By: Vitaliy Shushko | Animation: Elena Volk's Independent Studio
s01e18 "Zima Blue" 10min | Director: Robert Valley | Story By: Alastair Reynolds | Animation: Passion Animation Studios
s02e01 "Automated Customer Service" 12min | Director: Kevin Van Der Meiren, David Nicolas, & Laurent Nicolas | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Atoll Studio
s02e02 "Ice" 13min | Director: Robert Valley | Story By: Rich Larson | Animation: Passion Animation Studios
s02e03 "Pop Squad" 18min | Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson | Story By: Paolo Bacigalupi | Animation: Blur Studio
s02e04 "Snow In The Desert" 18min | Director: Léon Bérelle, Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, & Maxime Luèr | Story By: Neal Asher | Animation: Unit Image
s02e05 "The Tall Grass" 11min | Director: Simon Otto | Story By: Joe Lansdale | Animation: Axis Studios
s02e06 "All Through The House" 7min | Director: Elliot Dear | Story By: Joachim Heijndermans | Animation: Blink Industries
s02e07 "Life Hutch" 13min | Director: Alex Beaty | Story By: Harlan Ellison | Animation: Blur Studio
s02e08 "The Drowned Giant" 13min | Director: Tim Miller | Story By: J. G. Ballard | Animation: Blur Studio
s03e01 "Three Robots: Exit Strategies" 11min | Director: Patrick Osborne | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Blow Studio
s03e02 "Bad Travelling" 22min | Director: David Fincher | Story By: Neal Asher | Animation: Blur Studio
s03e03 "The Very Pulse Of The Machine" 17min | Director: Emily Dean | Story By: Michael Swanwick | Animation: Polygon Pictures
s03e04 "Night Of The Mini Dead" 7min | Director: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon | Story By: Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller | Animation: Buck
s03e05 "Kill Team Kill" 13min | Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson | Story By: Justin Coates | Animation: Titmouse
s03e06 "Swarm" 17min | Director: Tim Miller | Story By: Bruce Sterling | Animation: Blur Studio
s03e07 "Mason's Rats" 10min | Director: Carlos Stevens | Story By: Neal Asher | Animation: Axis Studios
s03e08 "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" 15min | Director: Jerome Chen | Story By: Alan Baxter | Animation: Sony Pictures Imageworks
s03e09 "Jibaro" 17min | Director: Alberto Mielgo | Story By: Alberto Mielgo | Animation: Pinkman. TV
s04e01 "Can't Stop" 6min | Director: David Fincher | Lyrics By: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Animation: Blur Studio
s04e02 "Close Encouters Of The Mini Kind" 7min | Director: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon | Story By: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon | Animation: Buck
s04e03 "Spider Rose" 17min | Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson | Story By: Joe Abercrombie & Bruce Sterling | Animation: Blur Studio
s04e04 "400 Boys" 15min | Director: Robert Valley | Story By: Tim Miller & Marc Laidlaw | Animation: Passion Animation Studios
s04e05 "The Other Large Thing" 9min | Director: Patrick Osborne | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: AGBO
s04e06 "Golgotha" 10min | Director: Tim Miller | Story By: Joe Abercrombie & Dave Hutchinson | Animation: Luma Pictures
s04e07 "The Screaming Of The Tyrannosaur" 15min | Director: Tim Miller | Story By: Tim Miller & Stant Litore | Animation: Blur Studio
s04e08 "How Zeke Got Religion" 15min | Director: Diego Porral | Story By: J. T. Petty & John McNichol | Animation: Titmouse
s04e09 "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners" 8min | Director: Patrick Osborne | Story By: John Scalzi | Animation: Aaron Sims Creative
s04e10 "For He Can Creep" 14min | Director: Emily Dean | Story By: Tamsyn Muir & Siobhan Carroll | Animation: Polygon Pictures

Additional Information

This show wasn't made by Heavy Metal or from any story in the magazine, but it started out as a Heavy Metal project (see below). It was in production with Tim Miller and David Fincher for many years until the rights for the film were sold, making this version dead. After severing ties with Heavy Metal, the project continued to evolve, until it became Love, Death & Robots on Netflix. Executive producers David Fincher and Tim Miller stayed on and Blur Studios still animated some of the stories. The show lost most of its big named directors, and it's hard to say how many stories made it from the Heavy Metal days. But the concept is still very much the same.

The Heavy Metal Movie That Never Was

Since the first movie in 1981 there have been many attempts at making more movies. Around 2005, director David Fincher wanted to make a new $50 million R rated anthology movie, together with Tim Miller & Blur Studios doing the animation. There would be 8 or 9 segments, many of which would be written for the movie and not based on stories from the magazine. The movie was picked up by Paramount Pictures and was set to release in 2010. The list of stories grew to 28. In addition to Fincher, Miller, and Heavy Metal owner Kevin Eastman directing a segment, they also got Zack Snyder to direct a segment Eastman wrote, and they got Gore Verbinski, Mark Osborne, James Cameron, Jeff Fowler, and Guillermo del Toro to sign on to each direct a segment. They got writers Marc Laidlaw, Jhonen Vasquez, Neal Asher, Brian Bendis, Steve Niles, Joe Halderman, and Lucius Shepard. Jack Black was supposed to lend his talent to the Osborne segment. However, even with all this talent attached to the film, it sat in pre-production limbo for years as they tried to convince a financer that an R rated, anthology animation could turn a profit. Then in 2011 director Robert Rodriguez acquired the rights for the film for one year, making the David Fincher version dead. Here are some of those original story ideas:
---"Bad Travelling", which ended up in Love, Death & Robots
---"400 Boys", which ended up in Love, Death & Robots
---"Mason's Rats I", which ended up in Love, Death & Robots, originally was going to be directed by David Fincher, along with a part II and III
---"Snow In The Desert", which ended up in Love, Death & Robots, originally was going to be directed by David Fincher. There was also interest in turning this into it's own movie staring and produced by Tom Cruise
---A segment based on Gaiking. There was enough interest in this, that it was opted out of the Heavy Metal movie, and was going to be made into a full movie on its own. A teaser was made of this, but the movie was never made.
---"The Lobby" by Jhonen Vasquez about snacks who would rather kill themselves then peform their song one more time
---"Half Breed" by Neal Asher and Tim Miller