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The film Heavy Metal features a segment titled "Den" that adapts the first Den collection, Den 1: Neverwhere (not to be confused with the animated short of the same title). The film eliminates the Uncle Dan part of the story and incorporates a green meteorite as a portal to Neverwhere.
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film.
Richard Corben (November 1, 1940 – December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine, especially the Den series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981.
He provided voices for multiple characters in the animated film Heavy Metal (1981), most notably as the title character in the "Den" segment, which was well-received, [17] including by the character's creator, Richard Corben, who singled out Candy's humorously lighthearted interpretation of the title character as excellent. [18]
Rock & Rule was Nelvana's first animated feature film and it was the first Canadian animated feature to be produced in English (the 1981 Canadian-American co-production Heavy Metal was also produced in English, but was an anthology film.
During this period he pursued a psychology degree, [4] but later became interested in becoming a film director. According to O'Bannon, he was reading an issue of Playboy when he found an article discussing the best film schools, which led him to the University of Southern California (USC). [4] He received a bachelor's degree in film from USC in ...
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Potterton supervised all of the film's eight sequences, and the work of 65+ animators in Canada, England and the U.S. While reviews were mixed at release, Heavy Metal was the top-selling video for four consecutive weeks in the U.S. when it was released on video in 1998. It is now a cult classic.