Adkins, Scott prove their 'Metal'

"Metal Hurlant Tales"CANNES -- Scott Adkins ("The Expendables 2") and Michael Jai White-colored ("Black Dynamite") have grew to become an associate from the worldwide cast of sci-fi TV series "Metal Hurlant Tales."Rutger Hauer ("Edge Runner"), Joe Flanigan ("Stargate Atlantis) and James Marsters ("Buffy") may even star inside the TV show's first season."Metal Hurlant Tales" is founded on french sci-fi and fantasy comics anthology that was launched inside the U.S. as "Rock.InchSkein is helmed by Guillaume Lubrano and produced by French house We Prods. and author Humanoids.Panini U.K Media, the certification arm in the Panini Group, is handling worldwide sales and shopping the series within the Mipcom TV mart, which started in Cannes on Monday.Taken, Universal Pictures Germany acquired home video and VOD rights for your initial few seasons (made up of 12 half-several hours). The brand new the new sony Pictures Television nabbed the series for distribution in a number of European areas, particularly Germany, Austria, German-speaking Europe and Luxembourg via its pay TV network.The initial season will probably be shipped in April as well as the second will bow in November 2012. Each episode will adapt tales within the original graphic books.Created by comic artists Jean Giraud (also called Moebius) and Philippe Druillet in 1974, "Metal Hurlant" increased to become sci-fi phenom inside the eighties. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com