A movie based on DC's Metal Men is in the works.
According to THR, the animated feature is being tackled by Ron Clements and John Musker, of Moana, Hercules, The Princess and the Frog and The Little Mermaid and Aladdin fame, along with Space Jam: A New Legacy's Celeste Ballard. Clements and Musker wrote the treatment and are expected to helm the Warner Animation Group project.
Created by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru, the Metal Men debuted in 1962's Showcase #37. The group consists of robots based on various types of metal -- Gold, Iron, Mercury, Tin, Platinum, Lead, Copper, etc. -- each of whom was designed by Dr. William Magnus.
After several appearances in Showcase, the Metal Men received their own ongoing title in 1963 and ran for 56 issues. After the title was canceled, the characters would appear in such books as The Brave and the Bold and DC Comics Presents.
The Metal Men returned for a four-issue miniseries in the 199os and featured in Infinite Crisis in the 2000s. Like the rest of the DC Universe, the characters were rebooted for the New 52, and they received a 12-issue limited series as part of Rebirth in 2019.
"We pretty much read everything that came before," writer and former DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio told CBR prior to the 2019 series' launch. "I've always been a big fan of the Metal Men, and I'm always watching things and following along. I've watched the multiple interpretations that we've done. Aside from Geoff, there were the stories Keith Giffen did as a backup in the Doom Patrol book, and we add some of that in. And we went back and looked at the Duncan Rouleau material, also when Francis Manapul did some redesigns and when Len Wein did some writing. The goal was to find the core conceit at the heart of the characters so we could contextualize all those different takes around one idea. Then we'd take that single idea and push it forward."
It's currently unclear if the Metal Men movie will connect to any of DC's other seemingly intertwined animated features, such as the upcoming Catwoman: Hunted, Green Lantern: Beware My Power or Battle of the Super Sons.
Source: THR