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Has Nispel's CONAN Found Its Villain??
Merrick here...
Latino Review says that Stephen Lang has been offered the role of 'Khalar Singh' in Marcus Nispel's CONAN movie, which'll star Jason Momoa (that guy from STARGATE ATLANTIS) as Conan and Mickey Rourke as his father.
In case Lang's name isn't immediately familiar to you, he played Colonel Quaritch in AVATAR - i.e. the main human bad guy dude.
According to a casting breakdown that leaked online last October...
Khalar Singh is in his 40s to 50s, Asian or Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Mongol, Turkish, or Persian, open to all ethnicities; commanding in size and manner, a warlord and formidable warrior, brilliant, cruel, weathered and tanned by the many campaigns he has waged and won. He is driven in his quest to find the Queen of Acheron and has been building an empire to do so.
His goal is to find the Queen whose blood will bring life to the demonic minions of Acheron while making himself king of this hellish power. With this power, Khalar will protect his legacy against the onslaught of master sorcerer, Thoth-Amon so that his weak son, Fariq may rule after his death. While riding into a Cimmerian village to recruit his old comrade, Corin, his large collection of mercenaries slaughters them to the last soul when Corin refuses to join them. The village’s only survivor was young Conan. When Khalar’s search has finally narrowed to the likely discovery of the queen at a monastery of female monks, he also learns Conan is older and hungry for revenge…
..says LR HERE.
Please note that LR is saying Lang has been offered this role - there's a long way to go before a deal is finalized, if that even happens at all.
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Khalar Singh is in his 40s to 50s, Asian or Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Mongol, Turkish, or Persian, open to all ethnicities; commanding in size and manner, a warlord and formidable warrior, brilliant, cruel, weathered and tanned by the many campaigns he has waged and won. He is driven in his quest to find the Queen of Acheron and has been building an empire to do so.
His goal is to find the Queen whose blood will bring life to the demonic minions of Acheron while making himself king of this hellish power. With this power, Khalar will protect his legacy against the onslaught of master sorcerer, Thoth-Amon so that his weak son, Fariq may rule after his death. While riding into a Cimmerian village to recruit his old comrade, Corin, his large collection of mercenaries slaughters them to the last soul when Corin refuses to join them. The village’s only survivor was young Conan. When Khalar’s search has finally narrowed to the likely discovery of the queen at a monastery of female monks, he also learns Conan is older and hungry for revenge…
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Can't Wait.
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Get rid of the Baywatch wuss.
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as Thulsa Doom and make it a Stargate reunion.
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I don't see it, especially after reading the character's description. This sounds like they are just going off of the success of Avatar to cast their next film.
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Cause that casting notice mentions a lot of ethnicities....and none of them are white.
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Khalar Singh sounds like a brown dude...and they cast the whitest dude possible? Was Ed Begley Jr not available?
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LOVE IT!!
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From Tombstone
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You guys always post what they post...hours later! Sadly, I still prefer AICN website...but jesus! Seems like this site is really startig to lag waaaaaaay behind(and I say this to spurn SOMEONE into action)
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old arnie would rule!
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to Marcus Nispel... what a career fall.
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Didn't that place get nuked from orbit, you know, because it was the only way to be sure?
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...has proven he has a sense of humor and understanding of source material with 'Friday the 13th'. I'm curious to see how he'll interpret the 80's heavy-metal iconography of Milius's original 'Conan' for today's audiences.
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Stephen lang should be conans father and mickey rourke should be the villan they got it all the wrong way round
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...doesn't smell like the CONAN I've been hoping for.
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Maybe if we're lucky, he'll...y'know...interpret the actual Robert E Howard stories rather than John Milius' viking movie. It doesn't look like that's gonna happen, though.
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...it's a gray day, and now I feel angry...and a little sad.
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I like Lang and all, but his casting is even lamer than the girly boy playing Conan. I wonder if the geniuses behind it thing he really has those scars across his head. The only cool casting in this is Bob "The Beast" Sapp as Ukafa. I guess this might be worthy of the Netflix queue . . .
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I've never read Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories. How much of them made it into Milius's adaptation? Any suggestions for a starting off point to an uninitiated reader?
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Always excited when Conan gets rediscovered. If it hadn't been for the movie, I wouldn't have read the stories. And here we are, the final webisode of another saga LONG ISLAND GOO SPEW.http://www.youtube.com/user/keylimeproductions
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...out in paperback...of just the original Howard stories in the order of publication.
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I'm in!
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FAIL UPWARDS
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Off to Amazon...
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it sounds closer to the works of Robert Howard, and I would like to see it stick to those as close as possible than the Conan the Dumb Brute on Steroids that some people associate it with.
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Mar 03, 2010 12:13:57 PM CST
...although personally, I'm not against the older collections...
by flickapoo
...that include re-tooled stories by Lin Carter and Sprague de Camp.
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Nispel has no love for REH or the source material, Conan is now Hawaiian, fuck this movie.
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..His people were never slaughtered to the last man. Why do they persist on going to that well.
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Fucking hate the casting for this. Hey I have an idea, lets take some one from the completly wrong side of the world and let him play REH's Celt like steeley eyed battled weatherd barbarian. Oh...and make sure he's a pretty boy too !
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Is that the one to get?
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Mar 03, 2010 12:33:30 PM CST
...Howard's The Valley Of The Worm, while not specifically...
by flickapoo
...a Conan story, would make a great origin tale.
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will make 'Conan: The Destroyer' look good.
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with Hollywood man. What a joke.
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...yeah, but if you want to go cheaper you can start with The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian...it's a paperback volume 1 (of 3) of the same stories.Unfortunately none of these have Frazetta's great ink drawings...life goes on, I suppose.You should google image Frazetta's Conan though...just to get in the mood.
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Just a hunch.
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Thanks again.
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Hate him for this roll, however...his casting in Game of thrones as Kal Drogo is spot on. How the hell can they think he's right for Conan and Drogo ? Dont get it.
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I'm calling it.
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It still hasn't found it's Conan for fuck sakes! Nothing against Ronin Dex he was alright on SG:Atlantis but as Conan the Cimmerian nope he is as wrong as wrong can be.
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By the way, I was thinking that the Crixus dude from Spartacus: Blood & Sand would actually make a good Conan. Just a random thought.
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Quick! Find me a white guy to play the role!
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'Cause they have a long way to go! Stargate Atlantis dreadlock dude as Conan? That's the role he was born to play! Old white guy as a Mongolian-looking dude? Bad-ASS! How can this possibly go wrong?
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This part woulda been fantastic for Ray Stevenson. He's got the right personality for the roll and could look the part well enough. Although even better would have been Xaivier Bardem.
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For fuck's sake, talk about miscasting every single role. At least Nispel is dumb and horny enough to cast good looking women like he does in most of his movies.
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...and cover the tape with a little makeup.That'll fix it.
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from his village in Cimmeria? He was a teen, maybe 16 or so, had a strong case of wanderlust, and went off seeking adventure. Right? Then he ended up mixing it up with the Vanir and the Aesir.
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Good thing Christian Bale isn't British or something.
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Wouldn't he be natural as Conan's enemy?
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then into Hyperborea. I read the Dark Horse comics adaptation of those REH stories recently and it would make a great movie. From terrible snow combat (Giants!) to a sun kissed paradise filled with perverted, immortal nobles...
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Not looking good.
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Mar 03, 2010 1:28:05 PM CST
What happened to the Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
by marcel_the_negro_projectionist
piece? It was there, and now it's not. Even though it's old news, it's still relevant.
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this is gonna suck a LOT of ass. This keeps getting worse with every new announcement.
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Horrible pick for Conan. HORRIBLE!
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...if he was playing a "roll", this movie would REALLY suck.
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He's hung like a constrictor, boa.
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Please.
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Because not every actor is Christian Bale.
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This is why children shouldn't make a MANS movie. Yes, I know he was born in 1963.... he doesn't have the credentials to make CONAN.
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which'll star Jason Momoa (that guy from STARGATE ATLANTIS) as Conan
Seriously some untalented actor of the wrong ethnicity is playing Conan.
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That is all.
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Straight to dvd piece of shit. The people involved with making this have no souls, and should promptly go fuck themselves. It's just a slap in the face to Howard's work, they should be ashamed of themselves.
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... I'm happy with is the casting as Jason as Conan. They need to remove every single thing that ties it to the Arnold version, which was good for what it was but not Conan. Hell, why kill Conan's people? He was 15 when he started going on raids and traveling because of tales his grandfather told him of far off lands and adventure. Keep his people alive dammit!
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...if the guy can act. After seeing him on the Cameron Inside The Actors Studio on Monday, right after having seen Avatar for a second time on Sunday, I'm pretty sure he can act. Seeing him sitting there in street clothes in the audience was quite a shock in comparison to how bad ass he plays his character in Avatar. I realize it's just being offered, not final or anything, but this is way better casting news than Hawaiconan.
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...film "is not Conan". Why, because he didn't have black hair? Silliness. That movie FEELS the way a Conan movie should feel. I don't care how much you want it to be different than the Arnold version, if it doesn't have a pure, realistic fantasy tone then THAT is NOT Conan.
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He had one in Law and Order.
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Accents are part of acting.
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This guy pretty much stole Avatar away from the smurfs. Love it.
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Correct. And when he appeared on Inside The Actors Studio he had a very clear upturn to the position of his eyes. I could easily see him playing the part with a bit of makeup and a wig.
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...was a hyper badass in Avatar. I can picture him involved in some nasty barbarian skullduggery.
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Took my nearly 60 year old mother to see Avatar this last Sunday and she thought that he and Zoe were by far the best actors in the movie.
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that skinny metrosexual model they cast as conan better start munching on steroids like m&ms or this movie is going to suck.
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The cast sounds lackluster at best. I'm not even familiar with the guy they picked for Conan. Sure, hardly anyone knew of Arnold before the original Conan, but he ended up being perfect for the role. Jason Momoa doesn't have any weight to his name -- he's a true nobody.
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The dude doesn't look so stupid without the dreadlocks and goatee, but in a recent pick I can't tell if he has done enough roids/HGH to pull this shit off
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I read that all the hollywood ho's were hanging off this dude and Gerard Butlers jocks at a party
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Didn't even know who he was before he stole Public Enemies. One goofy fucking villain role is enough!
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He's also in that Game Of Thrones show everyone is wetting themselves for
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What a shame...I was so looking forward to seeing another muscle bound lummox as Conan again.
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Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa is going to make all your wives and girlfriends wet to the point where you will see Conan whether you want to or not
http://tinyurl.com/yhugmkj
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Momoa will look like a girl next to them.
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Mar 03, 2010 3:50:58 PM CST
We went from nearly getting King Conan to this shit
by judge dredds fresh undies
Marcus pathfinder Nispel and some dude from baywatch.
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Seriously.
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forget about the dreadlocked picture from 6 years ago, this is what Conan looks like now.
http://tinyurl.com/yhugmkj
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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¿¿¿??? why walter b WHY??!!!
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What. A. Fuck. Up.
13TH WARRIOR will rule over this gaylord CONAN. Hell, even RED SONJA will look badass compared to this.
Rasta man homoa isn't fit to polish Arnie's sword. As much as he might like to.
As for Stephen Lang, well fine no problem - but as a Middle Eastern villain, WHAAAAT??? The motherfucker's practically albino.
I've been looking forward to more CONAN ever since the epilogue from the original, but not this. Oh no. Not this.
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It's not a period piece? It involves a human working a cosmetics counter?
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I hope he goes on to play Kalidor in a Red Sonja reboot.
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He played an Indian named Joe Tiger. Ass-kicking veteran reforming the youth of the mid-80s. There should be no problem with Lang's casting at all.
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And that would be too bad.
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I won't be seeing this pile of crap. If Milius was involved... and Arnold was back to play Conan, etc. I'd watch it. I can still picture an aging Arnold/Conan sitting on the throne with a beard and wearing plate... a sword by his side. I'd see that shit in a heartbeat.
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Get Arnold back!
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http://www.thearnoldfans.com/movies/kingconan/articlepix/kingconan1.jpg
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I found the (500) Days of Summer score on iTunes. Thank you, God.
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Pathfinder... That is all.
His entire career dating back to Music Videos is made up of work that he ripped off of much more talented people. He has been chasing Fincher for 20 years. -
It's possible that this 'Scorpion King'-sounding premise can be made into a good film. But what are the odds that this 'Conan the Destroyer'-level assemblage of talent will meet the standards of the first Conan film, or of the original stories themselves?I'm currently going through the original stories in audiobook form, and at their core, they're fundamentally unsuited to any sort of modern, hip, fashionable approach. They're weird, and grim, and difficult. Which is why they're so wonderful. And so unlikely to be done right by Hollywood.I think the closest thing we'll ever see to a proper Conan movie was made by Milius and Arnold almost 30 years ago. And it was flawed, but brilliant in a way that films aren't anymore. Hate to say it, but I think we may be better off leaving Conan, Lovecraft, Moorcock, and Lieber to book form alone. Some stories just work best in the imagination, and the modern film industry doesn't seem to have what it takes.
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Then you ought to be shot for not knowing one of America's greatest living Stage Actors.
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Leno is bane of all Conan's throughout the ages.
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I liked him as Quaritch. But he's far more capable of doing roles of depth rather than just being stuck playing these soul-less 2D bad guys.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Doomed to fail, even before it sets sail. Momoa cannot act to save his life, the best thing about him, is his wife. Someone here mentioned casting Christopher Judge as Conan - this is a good idea. Judge looks the part and most importantly, is a fantastic actor. It's a shame these producers can't think rationally. -
-Stephen Lang is a FUCKING BADASS (BAND OF THE HAND FTW!). I think this is going to be pretty standard crap though, which is a shame because the original Robert E. Howard material is mind-blowingly good. I just hope they make this extremely bloody and violent!
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-Stephen Lang is a FUCKING BADASS (BAND OF THE HAND FTW!). I think this is going to be pretty standard crap though, which is a shame because the original Robert E. Howard material is mind-blowingly good. I just hope they make this extremely bloody and violent!
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You can bring a girl to this and you will get laid that night, and you will have Jason Momoa to thank. Conan! 2011! Momoa! Babies WILL be made! Everyone gets laid!
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In a giant Wooden Mecha with a Giant Mecha Iron Ax!!!!....Why this cant happen!!!!
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Not exactly white. So stop calling him an old white man. People from the Middle East are not white.
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I was trying to be nice. For some reason.
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Really? Sigh.
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Is it me, or are Hollywood suits....stupid? Steven Lang playing a Persian/Mongolian/Asian character! As if they don't have enough people to play the role they cast a white guy??? What about a biopic of Abraham Lincoln with Denzel Washington in the title role. Somehow, I don't think so!
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Frederick Douglass in a biopic. I think that sounds about right.
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(term limited).
King Conan: Crown of Iron.
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...should be funny (hence, the lol). But in this case it's actually a nervous laugh. Because it's actually kind of frightening how little most people know and how much it will affect the world at large in the future.
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Mar 03, 2010 7:28:07 PM CST
Mickey Rourke is taking any shit that comes his way...
by scriptgirl_nipples
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Last time I checked Judaism is a religion not an ethnicity. That being said there are members of that religion that are non-Semitic in origin they are European.
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Dicks will be sucked! 9 months later you will have a child and a Conan DVD and your debt to Jason Momoa will be paid.
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I thought he was the go-to Asian badguy? He'd actually be pretty awesome, IMHO.
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Theater seats will reek of wet pussy.
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Search your feelings.
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Are you retarded. Lang isn't an Amaerican convert. He's a Hungarian Jew. Hungarian Jews descended from Israel after the great Jewish diaspora. Israel is in the Middle east. The dude isn't white. You never heard of ethnically jewish. Let's say that there is no such thing as an ethnic Jew for your sake. He's still got hungarian blood. Hungarians aren't white. So your still a retard. Congrats, go back to your White Power Combine in Idaho
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THANK YOU for mentioning Stargate Atlantis, Maverick! OMG, Conan will so pwn and many of you will eat your words. Badass doesn't begin to describle Momoa (Ronin) on SG: Atlantis!
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^^ a sword should be no problem for Momoa too as he did pretty well with any object setting next to him on Stargate!
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Women will be lining up to be stabbed my Conan's sword
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Would have been much better for Prince of Persia
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you will Crom in your pants
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I'll only watch this thing if Conan has 3 dicks and I'll rip the friggin' thing for even that much. C'mon, film idjits, option something that HASN'T already been done to death. What, no Spider Robinson books or even Heinlein's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel?" The latter is a merchandising bonanza waiting to happen. Wanna do a great, detailed barbarian-flavored story? Look up Sterling Lanier's 3-volume tale that starts with "Hiero's Journey." That has a full roster of great characters, a meaningful arc and oodles of potential. How about "Buddy Christ Gives A Hickey To A Fireplug?" You blow-dried Hollywood sob sisters aren't even trying. Sandpaper handjobs all around. BOOOO! -
...dunno if you're still reading this thread, but hope you enjoy the Howard stories if you get around to reading them. I envy you the experience of reading them for the first time. Of FlickaPoo's two suggestions, I would go with the three separate volumes myself, starting with The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian. And although Frazetta will always be the top sword and sorcery artist in my estimation, I still think that the illustrations that are included in those volumes -- the ones by Mark Schultz and Gary Gianni somewhat moreso than Greg Manchess -- hit a little closer to the mark as far as representing what's in the text. Again, enjoy.
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without google...... Which movie is that character from?
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The Hard Way ... That's on Netflix instant watch in HD btw
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There is no knowledge apart from google!
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Mar 03, 2010 11:30:50 PM CST
Lang reminds me of "Daddy" from The People Under The Stairs
by thejudger
Or Talking Head singer David Byrne.
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the same villain. See if we can tell em apart. Kinda like Imaginarium of Dr Parnasus
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Hello Conan..Look at your gods..now look at me..look at your gods..now look at me. You can never see your gods but you can see me. I've got beautiful slave women, now they're gold. Your gods can't do that but I can. Join me Conan. I'm turning into a giant snake.
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He's more muscled than the Conan they have in this. He's one of America's best stage actors. And he's too good to be wasted on this crap. I hope he doesn't waste his time. If they sent him any of the script, it could only serve for ass wipe. Mr. Lang, don't do it. Bad career move. After Avatar, he can pick much better and more lucrative projects, I'm sure. Hollywood doesn't have the balls to actually film a story by Robert E. Howard, anyway. You all suck, Hollywood hacks. Suck suck suck. If Crom even gave two shits, the mountains would fall on you. If Conan were around to defend his name and image, heads would roll. A better movie to make would be about Conan cursed by Thoth Amon and teleported to modern-day Los Angeles, catching news of the kind of movie they're going to make about him; carnage ensues. Now that would be a righteous revenge tale. Not some made up shit about his people being slaughtered. Do some reading there, geniuses. THE CIMMERIANS COULD NOT BE CONQUERED. They turned back the Aquilonians, and the Acheronians couldn't subdue the Cimmerians THOUSANDS OF YEARS before Conan's time. Not interested in any more news about Nispel Gaywatch non-Conan. Please don't bother us with this. Arnold's too old and not interested anymore, he should've done a King Conan in the '90s. Basil Poledouris has sadly passed on, and his music was the single best thing about the old Conan movies. You may fire when ready.
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Check this out Harry! www.fanboyweb.com
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Well actually there are two main types of Jews. Ashkenazi who are European "white" Jews like I guess Mr. Lang is and Sephardic who are middle eastern Jews, like that Oded Fehr guy from the Mummy movies. You see someone like Fehr would be fine to be a villain from that area of the world, Lang not so much.
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have an 18-year old Russian model girlfriend? Of course he'll take anything that comes his way, because he's not as pretty as he used to be in the 80's.
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The Hard Way.Fucking horrible movie.Love it.Not to mention his turn as psycho killer,great stuff.
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Mar 04, 2010 3:00:48 AM CST
Didn't know Lang was so highly regarded as a stage actor
by bruce of all trades
I liked him in Avatar, but I thought he was pretty one-dimensional based on his performances in that movie and in Public Enemies. Good to hear.
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I was recently watching Empire Strikes back I realized just how much I miss old school special effects. They had a certain charm and magic to them. I'm gonna sound old, but today's CG is just heartless garbage!
Also, why does all CG have to be at 90mph? Slow down, let us taken in the special effect. It's funny, but the only CG that really had charm and magic was the few shots of the CG T-rex in JP and that was 17 years ago!
Today they're just going through the motions. It's like a factory spiting out cans of tomatoes. There's a few exceptions, like Avatar, at least they're trying something new or Tron Legacy. They're pushing the technology. I can't wait to see what they come up with, but a film like Percy Jackson?, or whatever the hell it's called. If that moves you or impresses you. You're part of the problem. -
Good casting.
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Mar 04, 2010 4:09:33 AM CST
Javier as Conan is inpired casting, Frazetta would be pleased!
by killakane
Great actor, pumped up and battle scared; he'd be an awesome King Conan, shame Milius's Crown of Iron got shelved. Lang's a cool bit of casting though, solid actor and a step in the right direction. Not heard of Momoa, which is probrably a good thing in terms of there being no baggage associated with the role, gotta have plenty of 'screen presence' as well as being built like a brick shithouse.
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and change the story into one about SG-1's fight against Gaould and have Ronan, i mean Conan, have a really cool gun. then we have atlantis joining the fight in the mind, and make Mckay say funny stuff until he figures out who to fix the problem with the conduits so they can get power from ZPMs and let john be on the ancient chair getting those drones read, have Teal'c saying kicking ass and shit and say shit like "indeed" alot, then get Sam in a bikini holding two P90s shooting at wraith and have shit happening in the sky with Daedalus-class ships tag teaming against some hataks and make caldwel say shit like power to the shields and have appollo dude say like nuke everything and shit. totally going to that movie now
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be there bitches
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. . . the smarmy tabloid guy from Manhunter. His best role has to be Ike from Tombstone though. Mouthy fucker never got capped and deserved it more than anybody.
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Just looked at his IMDB..he was Ike Clanton in Tombstone ! didnt realize that was the same dude ! Great actor. " Law dog dont go round here ! "
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Thanks again for the suggestions. 'The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian' seems like a great place to start. Even if this film fails, I can now appreciate it on a personal level.
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That's right future Conan movie, you've been warned. If it's not King Conan with Arnold slaughtering, pillaging, and raping, I'm not watching it.
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would have been the only one who could have been a good conan. might as well cast hugh grant as compared to the guy they got.
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I knew Lang was in THE HARD WAY but never realised he was in TOMBSTONE too.
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i have less than high hopes for this film
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and his Ike Clanton was so hateful.
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Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!
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...just remember to look up Frazetta's Conan.
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Dwayne the Rock Johnson only makes garbage like the Tooth Fairy, Planet 51. He does it for the money. And he doesn't care about good movies.
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Nispel is fucking horrible. He doesn't know how to make a good movie, and now they let him cast some young baywatch stud to play Conan? Fuck off, you're insulting us.
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...are fantastic! Amazingly dynamic; a kind of fusion between baroque and impressionist painting. Hopefully, Nispel is aware of Frazetta's work and uses it to inform his adaptation's aesthetic (as, I see, Milius had before him). Then at the very least we'd get a cool looking film.
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...you right - but I've got a feeling the mediocre talent involved in this project will try to reboot Conan for the PG13 crowd and ignore the more mature themes traditionally visualised by Frazetta or, to a leser extent, Buscema.
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yes "the rock" has made some aweful stuff. because he is trying everything he can to stay away from roles like conan. too bad for him, because he is meant for roles like that and a movie like conan was meant for him. if arnold coul dhave pulled of the role with his limited acting, the rock sure could have. he would just have to be himself. do you smell what krom is cooking? lol
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Most one dimensional character I've seen in a long time. And by one dimensional, I mean "NO CHARISMA".
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When Mr Frazetta was frequently quoted he never read any of the Conan books and is evidenced by the fact Conan is described in the books as being 6'2" 220 -230 (not coincidentally Howard's own size) and not the freakishly proportioned d-boller he has become symbolic with.
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...are so beautifully and realistically rendered, the very antithesis of the plasticine princesses of pop culture. Take this piece (NSFW)- http://tinyurl.com/yd9dyg8 - for example.
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then there is no such thing as "white" people. All you white people are delusional.
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I have to comment on this article because I am such a huge fan of the first two Conan movies with Schwarzeneggar. The first was devotedly true to the comic and I believe that's due to the director, that anachronism we know as John Milius. Who but the man who wrote the immortal line: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" could direct a movie about an "id"-driven character such as Conan. The sequel was thoroughly tongue-in-cheek as well as visually inventive and I enjoyed every minute of it (especially the "drunk" scene). I think a new movie is called for, I think Mickey Rourke and Stephen Lang are talented and volatile actors. They have an uncanny ability to be authentic and hokey at the same time. Perfect for a Conan movie! I just hope the new director studies the previous two films and tries to emulate Milius' integrity as well as the sequel's inherent humor.
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Mickey as King Conan and that stargate dude as lil conan. Lang did play a good badass marine but i dont see him with long hair and a sword......
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Will there be a Conan that remains true to the books... I'm resigned to that fact. Having said that, I agree that Javier Bardem would make a spectacular Conan. But the script... that's really the whole point, innit?
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I smell the equivalent to GODZILLA 1998. Y'know, I thought that in order to play a character, you had to actually LOOK like that character, not like you belong in a fucking TWILIGHT movie. Actually, wasn't a TWILIGHT actor in the running for Conan? This sucks. Fuck Nispel.
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...Don't know if you're still reading this thread, but if you are, I have to ask: Are you saying that you have just discovered Frank Frazetta!? If so, I can't tell you how much I envy you, seeing that artwork for the first time! FF was my biggest influence as an artistic child growing up in the '70's. His stuff is just so unbelievably alive! Of course, for me, his "The Barbarian" is the absolute measuring-stick against which any visual portrayal of Conan must be compared. He certainly took things in his own direction, dressing all of his subjects down considerably from their "literary wardrobes", and bringing a sort of murky psychedelia to worlds of fantasy and sci-fi. Although I do hold him and his renderings of Conan in the absolute highest esteem, I would hate to see the other artists I mentioned go ignored, as they do bring their own pleasing styles to the subject (I especially like Gary Gianni's neo-classical style, and the proto-mullet he gives Conan really works within that style...in old paintings and etchings, people don't usually have particularly cool hair), and work hard to show more fidelity to the written word than FF ever did, even if that means a sometimes less sensational take on the character. I enjoy many artists' visualizations of Conan: FF as well as Gianni, Mark Schultz and Greg Manchess (who is a fantastic artist, even if some of his depictions of Conan are a bit wrong-headed to me), the artists who contributed to the three Del Rey volumes that have been recommended to you. Also a lot of the comic artists, like John Buscema and Cary Nord. Never really was too kean on Barry Windsor Smith's effeminate, Led Zepp/hippy-looking Conan, though. Of course, FF definitely has the sentimental edge for me, as well as being the most arresting by far.
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Frazetta is the standard by which Conan should be measured visually. Actor Paul Sloan, facially, IS FF's Conan. All he would've had to do is gain 20 lbs. of muscle, put on a black wig, put in blue contacts and he's FF's Conan as much as Ray Stevenson's Punisher was Tim Bradstreet's Punisher. I also liked Alfredo P. Alcala's Conan art, and Earl Norem's too. I didn't like BWS's early Conan, but his latter Conan work is excellent. Mr. Momoa is incredibly miscast....utterly unbelievable. Maybe R. E. Howard committed suicide because he foresaw this shit. Apparently Crom doesn't listen or sends doom down on those who pray to him, because this is definitely the opposite of what any serious fan of R.E.H's redoubtable Cimmerian would want. Mr. Momoa might be good on STARGATE, but he IS NOT Conan. They might as well have gotten Will Smith. I wouldn't be surprised if they put Hip Hop on the soundtrack at this point.
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This film is sounding like a turd.
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I'd take the guy portraying Spartacus right now on Starz over any of these casting choices for Conan. Again, this project sounds like utter crap.
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