Heavy Metal Cancels "Cold Dead War" Orders
Heavy Metal or George C Romero people call run by R.I.P Mr. O'Bannon widow Diane O'Bannon not been contacted by Heavy Metal over this series.
😬 It is not a good start for the son of George A. Romero; this is not 1968s were doing things and getting away with it, shooting a film about "dead people coming back alive?" anywhere even a bit part in Washington DC.
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Heavy Metal Cancels "Cold Dead War" Orders
Last month Bleeding Cool scooped the news that questions were being raised over Heavy Metal Magazine's decision to publish new comic book series based on Dan O'Bannon's B-17 story from the Heavy Metal animated movie. One cover-featured story ran in Heavy Metal Magazine #300. Another was a sequel series called Cold Dead War written by George C Romero, described in solicitations as "the official sequel to the well-known Heavy Metal animated film segment B-17". There is also a pinball machine using imagery from the original story in both the artwork and the mechanism.
Bleeding Cool established that Dan O'Bannon's estate, run by his widow Diane O'Bannon had not been contacted by Heavy Metal over this series and that she had been in touch with an attorney about contractual obligations for the work. She told us then, "It is surprising to me that Heavy Metal would go ahead without getting clearances from the originator of the B-17 property because this leaves the series in a vulnerable position regarding its completion and airing. We have had good relations with them previous to this. I would welcome a word from them." I understand that the estate later sent a Cease & Desist notice to Heavy Metal.
Heavy Metal has now told comic book retailers that all orders for Cold Dead War, that was meant to start publication this month, have been cancelled. However, it will now be resolicited to begin publication in January. Might we expect Cold Dead War to be resolicited, described in a different way, with different origins other than B-17? Here are the original solicitations, for comparison's sake. Heavy Metal did not return enquiries made yesterday.
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