FOOTAGE AND IMAGES FROM ‘METAL HURLANT’ LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES
Because I have the maturity level of a 13-year-old, whenever I see the title Métal Hurlant, I think of a robot barfing. (Hmmm..perhaps I have more in common with Michael Bay than I thought.)
At any rate, Métal Hurlant of course, is the French title for what we know in America as Heavy Metal (the French translation is actually “Screaming Metal”), the illustrated comic magazine with the busty airbrushed barbarian or sci-fi babes on the covers. The French anthology was made into a well-known animated film in 1981, (the cartoon blood and boobies were pretty mind-blowing if you were a kid at the time), and now a foreign company has two 12-episode seasons of a live-action TV series in the can titled Metal Hurlant Chronicles. The show has only aired in France so far, but it’s filmed in English and is just waiting for distribution in the states. Here’s a description of the series, followed by some more images and a trailer:
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