The director of Fight Club, The Social Network, and Seven has directed his first cartoon. David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller executive produce Love, Death + Robots, but in the third installment of the Netflix animated shorts anthology, Fincher finally directs one. If it isn’t immediately obvious from his familiar darkness and muted color palette, let’s just say it’s the one with the giant crab. In the Fincher-directed “Bad Travelling,” “A jable shark-hunting sailing vessel is attacked by a giant crustacean whose size and intelligence is matched only by its appetite. Mutiny, betrayal and ventriloquism with a corpse.” It’s written by frequent Fincher collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker.
Part 3 also features the first sequel short, as Patrick Osborne’s “Exit Strategies” continues to follow a wacky trio of robots in a world following the apocalypse caused by cats. As always, the shorts run the gamut from near photo-realism to more traditional action animation. Get a load of the trailer below, but be forewarned of some NSFW language:
Netflix also released synopses and directors for the other shorts, which drop May 20. From the official press release, they are:
The Very Pulse Of The Machine
When an exploratory expedition on the surface of the moon Io ends in disaster, an astronaut must trek to safety dragging the body of her co-pilot while using potentially mind-warping drugs to deal with the pain of her own injuries in this trippy tribute to comic book legend Moebius.
Writer: Philip Gelatt, from a short story by Michael Swanwick
The apocalypse is conceived – literally – in a graveyard in this biting zombie satire, which starts with some cheeky cemetery sex and accelerates into a walking dead invasion of everywhere – from downtown LA to the Vatican. It’s the end of the world as we gnaw it.
Director(s): Robert Bisi, Andy Lyon
Writer: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon, from a short story by Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller
Young, dumb and full of… blood, lots and lots of blood, a ’roid-raging, adrenaline-fuelled force of US soldiers faces a foe unlike any they have faced before, the result of a CIA experiment that gets really fucking Grizzly. From the director of Kung Fu Panda 2.
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Writer: Philip Gelatt, from a short story by Justin Coates
A story of fear, sex and philosophy on the farthest frontier, as two post-human scientists study an apparently mindless insectoid-race. Tim Miller writes and directs the first ever screen adaptation of the work from renowned Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling.
Writer: Tim Miller, based on the short story by Bruce Sterling
You know you have a pest control problem when they start to shoot back. The ratpocalypse comes to Scotland, as a grumpy farmer takes drastic steps to deal with an invasion of hyper-evolved rodents. Exterminator: Judgment Day.
Writer: Joe Abercrombie, based on the short story by Neal Asher
In Vaulted Halls Entombed
Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, a squad of Special Forces soldiers has the dangerous job of recovering a hostage held by terrorists. But the real evil they must confront is an elder god of ancient and terrifying power.
Writer: Philip Gelatt, based on a short story by Alan Baxter
Studio: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Fantasy and greed combine in this re-imagining of the traditional folktale of a siren whose song lures men to their doom. But her sorcery fails to work on the deaf knight, Jibaro, and the Golden Woman becomes fascinated by him. Thus begins a deadly dance of two predators.
Studio: Pinkman.tv
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Recommended Reading: Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology : Volume One
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