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It’s happening! It’s really happening! Way back earlier in the year there was news that King Conan might actually happen.
The long discussed, often promised but never delivered sequel to the much-loved Conan The Barbarian (and less loved Conan The Destroyer) was to move forward, finally.
Then… nothing.
Schwarzenegger himself revealed the news at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. But was it just wishful thinking? Early conversations still to be swept away on usual Hollywood tides?
Mission: Impossible filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie was attached to write and direct the film for 20th Century Studios.
Well, it turns out that Arnold is training for the role, and TheArnoldFans has more information from some key players.
Fredrik Malmberg, president of the IP owner Conan Properties International, had confirmed at the time:
“I can confirm we have a deal between CPI, Arnold, and [20th Century Studios]. Next year, we are going to do ‘King Conan’. So that is a reality now, and I am excited about it.
Now Schwarzenegger has given more details,, including reference to an all-time great movie as inspiration for tone:
“Next year we are going to do King Conan. So that is a reality now and I am excited about it. For the last ten years I have been saying, ‘we should do King Conan and we should get a great script written, get someone who really understands Robert E. Howard, that understands the artwork of Frank Frazetta and to continue on.’
I want to have John Milius, the director of Conan 1, to be maybe the producer. So it will be really fantastic.
The movie wouldn’t have worked after I did the first Conan because the whole idea of King Conan is that for 40 years he has been king, he is older now. He is no longer in the shape he was from his heyday, and now people are trying to take him out.
He’s the king, and he gets a little bit complacent. He’s tired of the job, and he wants to move on. Look at the movie by Clint Eastwood, [‘Unforgiven’]. It will be a lot like that, but it will be with extraordinary battles.”
McQuarrie will have to schedule King Conan around his collaboration with Michael B. Jordan on a Battlefield andaptation.
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