Hollywood must really be running out of ideas, I have stumbled across several remake ideas that they are pitching, another one is the True Grit remake(as if anyone is of a big enough caliber to top The Duke, on the other hand, at least they waited till long after he was dead to do this.) If memory serves me right, the original series of Conan movies are still doing substantially good(even after all this time.) Which begs the question of Why the remake, instead of the final installment? I mean really, How long are Conan fans going to have to wait for the actual completion of the trilogy?
Furthermore, if they are so deadset on doing that type of Movie, then Why not a Thundarr the Barbarian Movie(with Kevin Sorbo as Thundarr, Eliza Dushku (after an awesome tan) as Ariel, and a contender for Mr. Universe as Ookla.) On the other hand they could do another installment, hopefully with better results, of The BeastMaster, or even green light the Masters of the Universe remake, which it needs due to the fact that the original was no where near the comics or cartoon storyline.
The fact of the matter is, there are vertually tons of ideas that they could use, if they bother to look, and this fan sees no reason why they needed to do a remake, consider the fact that I got The Frachise Collection of what they call The Complete Quest.
One thing that really frustrates me is when Hollywood does remakes for no sound reason. Consider this fact, Conan made Arnold Schwarzenegger a big name star, with that stated what kind of notariety can this vertual no name actor from Hawaii hope to gain from this. To further complecate this "New Conan's" shot at actual notariety, wasn't it the original Conan that made that hairstyle popular in the 80's? As for the main supporting actor in the Conan Movies, who have they got that could possibly contend with the likes of how Mako performed that roll. Likewise, how are these new actors going to contend with the performances of Grace Jones and all the other memorable characters from the original stories?
I can understand if it's a remake like what they are doing with Judge Dredd,the flexibility to hold closer to the comic then what they could in the original there, or even RoboCop, mainly the same reason, on account that the comics for these two are in the realm of not for children, RoboCop primarily for the graphic nature and Judge Dredd for the obvious reasons, if you have read the comic.
However, there is little we can do to rattle those hollywood braincells into actually funtioning, especially in reguards to the release of the "New Conan", it is slated for release on August 19 of what is about to become this year.
In closing, let us hope that the new year brings working brains and rational thinking to the powers that be in Hollywood, I know it is a great deal to hope for, but my parent's always told me, if your going to dream- dream big.
Until next time comfans.