More Plot Details Revealed For Conan The Barbarian!

More Plot Details Revealed For Conan The Barbarian!

A synopsis for the a comic book adaptation of the upcoming movie has been released and it features some previously unrevealed details about the plot of Conan...

By JoshWilding - Apr 17, 2011 08:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Conan
Source: Bleeding Cool

Thanks to Bleeding Cool for the following.

Adapted from the new film by writer Stuart Moore, penciller and cover artist Gabriel Guzman [cover art at head of post], and with inks by Jason Gorder

On sale July 20, FC, 64 pages, $6.99, One-shot

After witnessing his wife burned at the stake, warlord Khalar Zym sets out on a quest to find the mythical Mask of Acheron, an ancient artifact that will bring his beloved back to life. In his search across the lands, Zym destroys a village in northern Cimmeria, where a boy born of battle survives and is cast out into the world, alone.

Years later, Zym crosses paths again with the boy who survived – Conan. He must now contend with this barbarian nuisance who is now set on vengeance for the slaughter of his village. Zym and his daughter, Marique, eventually clash with Conan in an epic final battle, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the world.

Based on Conan the Barbarian, the new major motion picture starring Jason Momoa, Rose McGowan, and Ron Perlman.




Conan the Barbarian is set to be released on August 19, later this year!




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jazzman
jazzman - 4/17/2011, 8:46 AM
@teabag

more like Conan The Blobbarian
TheAmazingSmitty
TheAmazingSmitty - 4/17/2011, 8:49 AM
I'm getting more and more excited for this film the more I hear about it. I can see Zym going insane when he sees Conan slay his daughter in that final battle, making it even more brutal and bloodthirsty when they fight one on one.
Dynamo
Dynamo - 4/17/2011, 9:07 AM
It makes it sound as if Zym is the main character.
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 4/17/2011, 9:31 AM
I would like me some classic Conan the Barbarian!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 4/17/2011, 9:40 AM
Sounds good so far! Great enough plot for the first movie!
Hope Thoth-Amon, Lord Zula and Belit comes in, in sequel!
PapaEmeritus
PapaEmeritus - 4/17/2011, 9:45 AM
@Dynamo, I think the same... but yeah, still have hope!
BlackSands
BlackSands - 4/17/2011, 10:11 AM
Greggmcg
Greggmcg - 4/17/2011, 10:51 AM
Why do they keep changing Conan's origin by having his village and family slaughtered? I guess it's more interesting than the fact that he just wanted to see what was beyond Cimmeria. I keep hearing how faithful this production is to Robert E. Howard and yet that part bugs me for some reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely looking forward to this movie, but that part always bugged me about the Schwarzenegger movies and now this one.
BlackSands
BlackSands - 4/17/2011, 11:09 AM
@teabag... you're not the only one... it was the best "kid-friendly" version of Conan Asskickery we've ever seen at the time - sure it had some WTF moments, but hell - it was the first time anyone tried to combine the Robert E Howard Conan mythos into one long semi-coherent story from beginning to end as an animated series.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 4/17/2011, 12:03 PM
BlackSands&teabag@ I loved it too!;)
Jediluke17
Jediluke17 - 4/17/2011, 12:17 PM
This is going to suck eggs!!!!
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/17/2011, 12:36 PM
This is gonna rock!
TheStranger
TheStranger - 4/17/2011, 2:18 PM
wtf is up with his hair?!
ClosetNerd
ClosetNerd - 4/17/2011, 3:02 PM
Big fan of the R.E. Howard stuff. Hope this movie doesn't suck.
jonedc
jonedc - 4/17/2011, 3:42 PM
God I want this to be a good movie but everything tells me otherwise....
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 4/17/2011, 5:35 PM
jonedc Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
DannyDreg
DannyDreg - 4/17/2011, 5:41 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again- - I think that Jason Momoa would make a great Lobo. What do you guys think?
DDD
DDD - 4/17/2011, 5:53 PM
This isn't CONAN THE BARBARIAN from the novels.

THOTH-AMON is CONAN'S nemesis, not this made up
guy KHALAR ZIM.

NISPEL claimed they were GOING BACK to the
ORIGINAL STORY and the "REAL" CONAN and the novels,
This isn't the original story at all!

And the "REAL CONAN" is an ancient Irishman, not a
Hawaiian, or Native-American or whatever this
CONAN is! CONAN is a CAUCASIAN guy with a dark tan!
His skin didn't come that way!

Also he's a massive man with massive muscles honed
in living on his own as an orphan in barbaric times.
He can pick up huge stones and topple a horse
and it's rider by grabbing the horse and throwing
them to the ground!

This is just plain inaccurate and STUPID, exactly
the way NISPEL makes movies of ancient times (just
watch "PATHFINDER" and see)!

NISPEL is a damn LIAR, A DAMN LIAR!
This movie is WORTHLESS!

I AM ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!!
DDD
DDD - 4/17/2011, 6:02 PM
DANNYDREG@, yeah, Momoa would be alright for
LOBO but he SURE ISN'T CONAN!

But I'd rather have an actually giant person
to play LOBO like 6'7" KEVIN DURAND!

Man, I hate CGI! Except maybe for THE HULK,
CGI is just stupidly cartoonish-animated
looking!
DDD
DDD - 4/17/2011, 6:09 PM
BLACKSANDS@, TEA@, ALEX@, that was a
cool CONAN cartoon!

I betcha it's gonna look like SHAKESPEARE
compared to this inaccurate movie!
DDD
DDD - 4/17/2011, 6:21 PM
Can't they just make an accurate CONAN, just once!

Schwarzenegger looked more like him but that CONAN
wasn't totally accurate either.

Oh, well! Hollywood never makes anything accurate
but NISPEL is the worst of the bunch!
DannyDreg
DannyDreg - 4/17/2011, 7:16 PM
@DDD: Kevin Durand was actually my pick when Guy Ritchie was set to direct the Lobo movie. CGI has come a long way, in fact Joel Silver wanted to incorporate the mo-cap techniques that Avatar used for Lobo.

(I'm not a fan of Avatar's very predictable storyline, but it was a visual feast)
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/17/2011, 7:35 PM
@ DDD - NO YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT!

The "real Conan" from the novels isn't an ancient Irishman, that's a common misinterpretation. He's from a "Mythical" race from a "Mythical" race that resembles the Proto Celts and is bronzed in his skin from many travels from his youth, blue eyes and black hair.

His race settles to a "Mythical" land where Northen Ireland and Scotland will later be after the Destruction of "Mythical Atlantis".

Despite the vast lengths Robert Howard went through to not assign his character to any place or region definitive to our map of the known world, people keep calling him an ancient Irishman due to the mythical setting of where his people would later settle, not where they came from nor the fact his physical description is not a-typical Irish whatsoever. Howard simply describes him as big, muscled, black haired and blue eyed, wearing whatever clothing suited where he was wandering and stronger than any man although not taller (Howard later described him as 6'0 when he was 15years old so in adulthood anything from 6'2 to 6'6). Sullen and brooding in expression and sometimes wearing a horned helmet and agile as a panther despite his great size.

Arnold isn't tanned, never was as Conan and although blue eyed has brown hair and actually 5'10 in height instead of the 6'2 he constantly lies about being for impressions sake. Heavily muscled Arnie is but agile as a panther...? No chance, Arnie is far from fighting physique.

Jason Moma is tanned, isn't blue eyed but has black hair (browns in the sun) and is 6'4 and has bulked up but not over the top so as to remain agile (agile as a panther remains to be seen) Has sullen features to replicate the brooding aspect of Conan.

In short, Jason has more in common with the character description than Arnie did plus he can act which Arnie could never do.

Frank Frazetta has pretty much influence the whole look of Conan in art with this one picture that hits the brooding look on the nail! But other artists today kinda get closer to the Robert Howard description.


Jason has the look in the face of the sullen, brooding Conan that Arnie never could perform despite his great physique, nice costumes and props.


Arnolds problem is his goofy acting which leads to him pulling clueless faces like this no matter what character he's playing..



While Jason as an actor will keep that crap in check hopefully and stay in character for more like this..




To attempt to capture the essence of this..


So in truth they're getting more right than wrong with this latest version and it's looking a lot more like the world Howard describes with the creatures and characters they've been unveiling in photos. The production looks good so far and we should wait and see how well they deliver before shooting it down as another prop fest like the Arnold films that literally flopped massively at the box office and just became cult faves for fanboys due to Arnolds popularity despite the lack of quality in the features.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 4/17/2011, 9:19 PM

Ceejay Your take on Conan's history was an interesting read, however, credibility is lost in posting those funny Arnold pics. One of the pictures is a set photo where they were fooling around. Why would that be compared to anything?
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/17/2011, 11:05 PM
Because it shows he makes those faces even when he's not acting! One picture is him fooling about with Grace Jones and the other is him in the actual first movie in action. He doesn't perform rage or menace, its his extremely limited, monotone range of playing Arnold no matter what role you give him with that same old Austrian Accent that every fanboy gives a wide pass to whether he's playing a Vietnam vet, a secret agent or a highly advanced robot from the future. In short, Arnie is the most overrated but fortunate performers ever to make a career out of pretending to be an actor. He can only play himself and nothing else no matter how much you doll him up with props!

Naturally I'm no Arnie fan, I liked the movies from the 80's but I was a young man when I saw them and short of the great music they weren't very good movies. Yet Arnie followers seem to think NOBODY is worthy of playing Conan except him when he can't play anything but Arnie! People really need to move on and give this version its chance to do justice to the source material without trying to cement Arnie as the definitive Conan he most definitely is not!
BlackSands
BlackSands - 4/17/2011, 11:57 PM
Ceejay, wasn't Conan a supposed "spiritual" successor of "Kull of Atlantis"? There have been many theories that Cimmeria was one of the lands the Atlanteans settled in after their island fell into calamity... thereby making Conan a Cimmerian by birth with Atlantean Ancestry.... Looking at how Robert E Howard did it, I think that is the case.

Conan was pretty much, in my opinion, a revamped "Kull" under a different name.... some of Conan's story mirrors the earlier character's life in some ways.

NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 4/18/2011, 3:12 AM
CeeJay Come clean, dude lol. You say there's no rage or menace in Arnold's CONAN but you specifically looked for a silly picture knowing there are SEVERAL shots of him being menacing in the movie. Then you say the set shot shows that "he makes those faces even when he's not acting". What does that even mean? Have you ever seen a gag reel? What is Momoa doing when he's not "acting"? He's posing for underwear ads and laughing. But you don't hold that against him so your opinion is clouded in a bias point of view.

Arnold's Conan is obviously relevent. You can't even speak on Momao without mentioning it or tearing it down. I never really understood the comparing of older versions to new versions as if they were made in the same era. It's like comparing STAR WARS CGI to STAR WARS puppets and models. Arnold's Conan made it's impact in the time it was released. It's considered a classic among many, and even those who aren't fond of it, are familiar with it. Conan 3D will not achieve this. But if you want to highlight Momaoa's attributes, it's probably more constructive and original to do it on his own merit- without using Arnie as a jump off point. Just sayin.

Enjoy your week.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 4/18/2011, 3:53 AM
"Arnold's Conan is obviously relevent. You can't even speak on Momao without mentioning it or tearing it down. I never really understood the comparing of older versions to new versions as if they were made in the same era. It's like comparing STAR WARS CGI to STAR WARS puppets and models. Arnold's Conan made it's impact in the time it was released. It's considered a classic among many, and even those who aren't fond of it, are familiar with it. Conan 3D will not achieve this. But if you want to highlight Momaoa's attributes, it's probably more constructive and original to do it on his own merit- without using Arnie as a jump off point. Just sayin."

Neo@ Agree with that!:) People should stop comparing Momoa to Arnold´s Conan and compare him to Howard´s Conan.

DDD@ I agree that it doesnt sound like the original story (which is dissapointing), but i think its good enough plot for the first movie. In the sequels i think they should however bring in more known characters (Thoth, Zula, Belit, Fafnir).
Actually i still hope that Warlord Khalar (even he has his personal goals in the movie) turns out to be nothing else than the servant/Henchman/Mercenary/lackey of Thoth-Amon. Who i think should be the main villain in the sequel or sequels if the first one is success.
Ibakedeskimo
Ibakedeskimo - 4/18/2011, 6:43 AM
@DDD why u hating on Momoa's Conan man... They race bend in hollywood all the time.... In this summers GL they replaced a Native American Character for some sorta South pacific islander guy... No one b!tched about that....
and your hating without even seeing a single frame of film....
Dedpool
Dedpool - 4/18/2011, 8:56 AM
@CeeJay- Good stuff man! I've been on the soapbox preaching since Momoa was cast. Thank you for posting that!
Dedpool
Dedpool - 4/18/2011, 8:59 AM
@ Blacksands- The Cartoon rocked. There was supposed top be an animated film for "The Red Nails" story, and Ron perlman was voicing but it fell into developmental hell. Was gonna be adult too! *SIGH*
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 4/18/2011, 9:08 AM
It was never stated that this film would be based on the origin story. It was stated that the world would be based on the Howard's novels and contain a mix of Howard's writings.

DDD@ You are not correct. I have said it plenty of times and have posted from Howard's Hyborian Age and you never seem to come back on to rebut what I have posted. Conan is a descended from Atlantis. Thousands of years later Conan's and Cimmerian descendants were Gaelic. Just because years later descendants are Irish does not make Conan an Irishman. You are completely coming from a speculative basis that an Irishman today looks like Conan would years ago. Look at how different races have changed throughout the years. You are also basing your opinion off of a current world Irishman. Conan is based off of a fictitious world and Hyborian Age that Howard penned. Also, Momoa has Celtic blood, so he fits more so as Conan than Arnold did if you want to get technical. ;-)

Who cares if Momoa is tan or naturally dark? He looks the part. He looks much more like the various images of Conan that we have seen than Arnold could have ever hoped to pull off. Also keep in mind that this is a "younger' Conan, who was not as massive as the King Conan, so perhaps they will have Momoa bulk up more for a sequel, but as I have said before. I prefer the fast, agile killing machine than a slow, bulky massive lump like we saw in the first films. I get a kick out of people thinking Momoa is small. The guy is 6'4 and well-muscled. Works for me.
PapaEmeritus
PapaEmeritus - 4/18/2011, 4:39 PM
@Ceejay - well done, man! The first Conan is already a classic. I think if they put another mr universe in the role will turn the whole thing into just a mimic, a mere pastiche. I think this reboot [I hope so] will go on by Barry Windsor Smith kind of path, what is fine by me! Still have hope.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 4/18/2011, 7:19 PM
I have to agree, OneEyeWillie (awesome name). Trying to get another bodybuilder to play the role would be nothing more than a sad attempt to copy the Classic Arnold film. Momao has zero appeal, but i'll admit, if this version is based on these particular images of Conan, he's at least in the ballpark with build and skin tone.
Connan10
Connan10 - 4/19/2011, 5:02 PM
well, i do wish the story was a little more "Conan Accurate" but sounds like it will have a better story than the original Conan the barbarian movies, which I still like the old Conan movies. So hopefully this new movie will be really good and not all special effects and a crappy storyline like a lot of movies that have come out lately. So i cant wait to see it, but if I become a Director someday I am going to make an actual accurate Conan movie strait from the books and comics. make it as accurate as possible.
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