http://www.impactonline.co/news/1759-heavy-duty-as-hurlant-gets-syfy-debut'Heavy' duty as SyFy airs 'Hurlant'...
Heavy Metal Magazine was at the forefront of fantasy fiction. Now the live-action series inspired by its short stories gets an American screening via SyFy...
Boyka, Black Dynamite, Twister, Roy Batty, Spike , Sallah and Kyle Reese (well the actors who played these legendary characters) star in the fantasy action series Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Based on the original Metal Hurlant French comic book anthology (best known to English speakers as Heavy Metal) this stylish anthology series has shot two series, the first of which has already shown in France but finally gets a North American - and hopefully UK release - shortly, making its debut on SyFy on April 14 2014.
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, Metal Hurlant Chronicles adapts stories from the world renown magazine of the same name, created by writers and artists whose work has graced the pages of X-Men, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man, Star Wars, Superman, Blade and many more. Each twenty-six minute episode follows one story be it action, heroic fantasy or science fiction or a combination of the three, shot in English and directed by Guillaume Lubrano.
The series features a number of faces familiar from the pages of Impact and many of our favourite cult and genre productions... including John Rhys-Davies, Michael Biehn, Scott Adkins, James Marsters, Michael Jai-White, Darren Shahlavi, Michelle Lee, Rutger Hauer, Kelly Brook and Celine Tran. Many of the episodes feature fight and stunt choreography by choreographer extrodinaire Larnell Stovall.
