Watch Michael Jai White Attack Some HEAVY METAL In First METAL HURLANT CHRONICLES Trailer

Though David Fincher remains unable to get his Heavy Metal movie off the ground there is no such problem in France where a television adaptation of the same source material - the French produced comic anthology magazine Metal Hurlant Chronicles, published in the USA as Heavy Metal - is now in production.

Given the episodic nature of the book, which collected dominantly disconnected scifi stories from comic artists around the globe, television arguably suits it better than a film would, the format naturally allowing it to move cleanly from story to story while running as long as demand merits.

We got our first look a while back with published stills from the first episode - which features martial artists Michael Jai White and Scott Adkins, among others - arrived online and that has now been followed by a teaser cut from that same footage. This was a one and out job for these guys - Adkins is currently filming The Expendables 2 and there are no plans for these characters to return to the series - but it looks like a good beginning. Expect the likes of Rutger Hauer and James Marsters to turn up in future episodes.