Here's one from the “please oh please let this be more than just a rumor” department: we learned from MTV's “Splash Page” website that directors David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club), Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) are still in talks with the Hollywood powers-that-be over the proposed new Heavy Metal movie. Yup, I'm talking about the animated cult classic with all the boobs and swords and blood and aliens and robots and boobs – in other words, all the stuff that pretty much warped my adolescent years.

Fincher, whose new film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is generating serious Oscar buzz, is cautious but enthusiastic about the prospect. “I’m ready to bat clean-up,” he told MTV News. “I’m ready to do whatever story no one else wants to do. We have like twenty-four stories and artwork for it. Zack Snyder is picking one and I think Verbinski has one that he likes. We’re seeing where it ends up. I have time to do one or two and I have dibs on eight or nine, so somewhere in there we’ll figure it out if we can ever get the money together.”

Fincher also said he's excited about the prospect of bringing 21st-century digital technology to bring the adults-only content to life like never before. “The world will at some point be ready for something other than singing, furry f**king animals,” he said. Wiser words have seldom been spoken, methinks.

Too diddly-damn good to be true? Well, maybe... after all, it's still in the planning stage, the money's not in the bag yet, and we all know how easy it is for these things to fall apart at the last freakin' minute... but hey, we can dream, can't we?