CONAN THE BARBARIAN TV Series In The Works At Amazon From GAME OF THRONES Director Miguel Sapochnik

CONAN THE BARBARIAN TV Series In The Works At Amazon From GAME OF THRONES Director Miguel Sapochnik

There's been talk a new Conan the Barbarian movie for quite some time now, but it looks like Robert E. Howard's Cimmerian warrior might be making his way to the small screen first. More past the jump...

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By MarkCassidy - Feb 05, 2018 06:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Conan
We haven't heard anything about Arnold Schwarzenegger's rumored Conan the Barbarian revival in a while, but we do have some  exciting news about Robert E. Howard's hero making his way to the small screen.

Deadline reports that there's a new Conan TV series in the works at Amazon from from Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield, Pathfinder Media and Endeavor Content.

The show will reportedly take the character back "to his literary origins", and is described as follows:

Driven out of his tribal homelands, Conan wanders the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization where he searches for purpose in a place that rejects him as a mindless savage.

The 2011 Conan reboot starring Jason Momoa was not well received, but this TV adaptation has some serious talent behind it and will hopefully do Howard's iconic creation justice.
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Pathogen
Pathogen - 2/5/2018, 6:06 PM
Great. Here come the fan picks of random muscular wrestlers who can't act to play the lead role.
ODanil
ODanil - 2/5/2018, 6:08 PM
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 2/5/2018, 6:11 PM


Give us the 3rd Conan film
LoudLon
LoudLon - 2/5/2018, 7:08 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Man I would LOVE the movie promised by that final image from the original Conan, but I doubt we'll ever get it, at least not with Arnold or John Milius. Yet another childhood fantasy of mine that'll never come to fruition...
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 2/5/2018, 7:27 PM
@LoudLon - We came close a few years ago, Arnold even had a poster. Not sure what happened behind the scenes.
LoudLon
LoudLon - 2/5/2018, 7:52 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - What happened was the budget inflated and Universal, lacking faith that the property would bring a big enough audience to justify cost, opted to drop it altogether.

I think more than anything they were influenced by the failure of the Momoa flick, and because studio execs are brain-dead fart wads, they didn't realize the reason that movie failed was because it was a lame reboot, and not the Arnold sequel two generations of fans had been waiting for. Two generations -- that's a pretty [frick]ing big fan-base they ignored. Legend would have been a hit.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 2/5/2018, 8:07 PM
@LoudLon - Fcking moronic studio execs!!!
grif
grif - 2/5/2018, 6:17 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 2/5/2018, 6:22 PM
Question is who will star in?
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 2/5/2018, 6:24 PM
Conan could make a good show... Never saw the recent film.

And Rest In Peace John Mahoney... Fraiser, Say Anything, In the Line of Fire, The American President, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Iron Giant... so many great works.
Jimster
Jimster - 2/5/2018, 8:21 PM
@Chewtoy - Wow! First I heard of this. Very sad news. Always loved him of Fraiser. He even voiced Sideshow Bob's father on the Simpsons in an episode. RIP.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/5/2018, 6:24 PM
Cool. Could you also make a Solomon Kane show?
WaffeX
WaffeX - 2/6/2018, 1:20 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - I like the movie, it's underrated with a great cast
Ace006
Ace006 - 2/5/2018, 6:28 PM
ummm whats up with that strange description
HarryBloodscreaming
HarryBloodscreaming - 2/5/2018, 8:50 PM
@Ace006 - Other than "driven from his tribal homelands" it pretty much describes the stories. Everyone in civilization underestimates Conan because they think he's basically just a big dumb yokel.
HarryBloodscreaming
HarryBloodscreaming - 2/5/2018, 8:52 PM
@HarryBloodscreaming - To clarify, he leaves Cimmeria basically out of boredom.
Ace006
Ace006 - 2/5/2018, 9:24 PM
@HarryBloodscreaming - i got what it was trying to say it just doesnt make sense cause the stories i've read don't really have that in them to the extent the description is making out
HarryBloodscreaming
HarryBloodscreaming - 2/5/2018, 9:42 PM
@Ace006 - It's a theme that runs through all the stories, but not necessarily always in an explicit way, though it's most definitely there. To make a movie or show it's important to chose a theme to focus on, and that usually gets emphasized more than it might be in the literary source.
Ace006
Ace006 - 2/5/2018, 10:53 PM
@HarryBloodscreaming - maybe but i often find that the better stories have these themes subtly which i guess i can hope this show will do
TheDarkPassenger
TheDarkPassenger - 2/5/2018, 6:38 PM
There is no Conan without Arnold.
NicholiB
NicholiB - 2/5/2018, 11:32 PM
@TheDarkPassenger - Sighhh!!! "There is no Conan without Arnold" Really? Reeaally??? The Momoa version was far closer to the Robert E Howard vision, you know as in that Conan the Barbarian guy, not a body builder who could barley act at the time? I'd bet money that you can't see someone playing a brutal looking 5 foot 3" Canadian in a costume and a scary mask unless it's a piece of six foot two Australian Lady eye candy in a vest and leather jacket?
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 2/5/2018, 6:39 PM
I'd like to see a non body builder / model / wrestler Conan. In the original stories he's a big feral monster and that can be pretty different than an obvious polished athlete.

mdwilliamson24
mdwilliamson24 - 2/5/2018, 6:45 PM
[frick] yeah!
I totally wanted HBO to develop Conan for a series to fill the fantasy void once GOT ends, but I'm just glad someone is going to doing it for real.

Just make it good for Croms sake!
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