France Is Making a Heavy Metal TV Series… Kind of
First of all, the series isn’t Heavy Metal exactly, but Metal Hurlant Chronicles, which was apparently brought to America back in the day and given the significantly less stupid name Heavy Metal. Now, I assume that MHC was also an anthology of tales of swords, spaceships and sexual intercourse, but this series seems to be telling one specific story in one specific world — a world that includes Michael Jai White, sets that Hercules: The Legendary Journeys would have found too cheap, and not much else. There are women with breasts, so… I guess that’s something, right? You know, don’t worry, it’ll probably never come over here anyways. You can just forget about it. I’m sorry I even brought it up. (Via Twitch)
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