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Metal Hurlant Unveils New English-Language Edition on 50th Anniversary as Denis Villeneuve Calls French Sci-Fi Comic Anthology the Source of His ‘Earliest Visual Inspirations’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Metal Hurlant, the famed French comic anthology that influenced modern sci-fi, is returning on its 50th anniversary with an English language edition
Among the generations of artists it would inspire were Guillermo Del Toro, George Lucas, Hayao Miyazaki, Ridley Scott, Jemaine Clement and Nicolas Winding Refn, as well as musicians including Air, Daft Punk and Hans Zimmer. The revived anthology edition — described as its “most ambitious iteration yet” — features 272 pages of “otherworldly, literary experiences,” including artwork by internationally acclaimed artists and essays and interviews with luminaries across the arts, such as writers Ted Chiang and Alan Moore. The epic space opera blended intergalactic voyage, politics, conspiracy, messianism, debauchery, romance and satire — and even included concepts and artwork from an early abandoned attempt to bring Frank Herbert’s “Dune” to screen, which Jodorowsky was set to direct.
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