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Quint interviews Thulsa Doom!

Tentacle sex??? by Lenny8	Jul 21st, 2008 06:40:57 AM
A great opportunity to bring Japanese tentacle sex to Robert E. Howard fans. Just saying.
No script? No director? Sounds like BS by Lenny8	Jul 21st, 2008 06:42:12 AM
This is Hounsou talking out his ass, I think. Like when an actor starts announcing he's the next Doctor Who, but no one told BBC.
interesting project by Sebilrazen	Jul 21st, 2008 06:42:16 AM
I hope they treat it with respect and not just make in an SFX blitz.
Give us us Free by therealkumar	Jul 21st, 2008 06:42:53 AM

"Give us Freeee!!" is what I say when my daughter... by FlickaPoo	Jul 21st, 2008 06:51:44 AM
...shakes the bars of her crib and cries for nap time to be over..."GIVE US FREEEE!!. I know it's wrong. But I say it anyway. And I chuckle quietly to myself.
philosophy of doom by SOHOMEMADEITHURTS	Jul 21st, 2008 06:53:26 AM
Just make sure he speaks a bit truth... "Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger!"
I honestly don't get it! by Samson_K	Jul 21st, 2008 06:59:45 AM
Is Thulsa Doom really a compelling enough character to have his own movie? I'm not by nature a cynical man but I honestly don't get this - it's kind of like - say before Superman Returns was made Rob Schneider had announced that he was doing a Mr Mxyzptlk movie - it seems a little bit like 'I'll make the movie so that when Conan inevitably comes along then I'll be guaranteed the part' - or something.
He should get Milius the direct this by Beowulf316	Jul 21st, 2008 07:06:54 AM
That would be awsome. Will this be a prequel to Conan the Barbarian because I think Thulsa Doom was a Kull character.
I'm no exegete in Robert E Howard's work by SpencerTrilby	Jul 21st, 2008 07:18:00 AM
but I sure hope they relaunch Conan with some decent budget, good director (please let the Hitman director at the doorstep. Please) and a ballsy rating. Conan the Barbarian was great, and that's a shame the saga ended that bad. I like Hounsou as an actor, so I guess it's good news even if he could be overselling it. Thanks for the heads up, Quint.
I Say Good Luck To Him by TroutMaskReplicant	Jul 21st, 2008 07:25:15 AM
It's definitely going to be hard work getting it made. But if you're an actor of African descent working in Hollywood, who isn't Will Smith or Denzel Washington, maybe you have to create your own leading roles?
Could be a tough sell... by Sledge Hammer	Jul 21st, 2008 07:39:56 AM
...but if they get it right then it could also be pretty interesting. And how many movies do we get to see that focus on a villian, or villian-to-be anyway? And Hounsou is always great value in whatever he appears in, so it'd definitely be interesting to see him carrying a film in the lead role. That said, with Dynamite involved I've gotta wonder if this isnt part of a long term crossover strategy. Dynamite have set up Thulsa Doom as Red Sonja's arch villian in their comics world, so with Dynamite also linked to the proposed Red Sonja film, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Thulsa made an appearance at the end of that film too (if it happens), setting up room for a Red Sonja vs Thulsa Doom sequel. See how things play out I guess... Wonder when we'll hear some word about Solomon Kane, they should have finished shooting by now...
Thulsa Doom/ Thoth Amon by DeckardBladeRunner	Jul 21st, 2008 07:44:32 AM
Apparently there are no REH fans that work for AICN or posting on here. Thulsa Doom was a villain's name from the Kull the conquer series of less successful stories from Robert E.Howard. Thoth Amon was one of Conan's repeat enemies from stories such as "the god in the bowl", "hour of the dragon" and "phoenix on the sword. Anyway, to make a movie to flesh out this character makes no sense and would be of no interest to Conan fans who have become less accepting of what basically amounts to fan fiction that has the name "conan" slapped onto it. Give this a read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T hoth-Amon I forgot to add this to my prior comments as well as the fact that you could assume they (milius and co.) loosely based Movie Thulsa Doom on Thoth Amon, who was actually a conan character. This film has disaster written all over it.
FlickaPoo = fantastic dad by ironic_name	Jul 21st, 2008 07:45:08 AM
paint her with bronze lotion next time!
All these sidesteps by Conans Sword	Jul 21st, 2008 08:07:48 AM
i wish they'd just get on with doing a proper conan film
Jagga by JimBobCooter	Jul 21st, 2008 08:27:11 AM
All action stars shine with perfectly stylized sweat and dirt (not to mention perfectly placed cuts and bruises). All races. Yet you've brought this up your black baby oil fetish 4 times now. We get it. It turns you on. Go join a Dijimon adult chat room somewhere.
Sorry for my grammar by JimBobCooter	Jul 21st, 2008 08:28:49 AM
You get the idea.
Thulsa Doom vs. Temple of Doom by JimBobCooter	Jul 21st, 2008 08:30:20 AM
Mola Ram returns?
Get it right guys, its.. by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Jul 21st, 2008 08:48:07 AM
Givvesss usss FREEEE
So we're getting a Cobra-la movie by BYOBkenobi	Jul 21st, 2008 08:56:12 AM
With the Amistad guy as Golobulus?
Isn't the prequel fad over yet? by Franklin T Marmoset	Jul 21st, 2008 09:01:01 AM
A film about Thulsa Doom the creepy, mystical, head-chopping badass might be fun to watch, but do we need another film that sucks all the magic out of a character we love by showing us his backstory in dreary, tedious detail? Poor James Earl Jones, he's already seen his other great movie villain turned into a whinging chump, it just doesn't seem right to put the guy through that again.
Why not a Black Panther movie with this actor? by fiester	Jul 21st, 2008 09:02:50 AM
He would own that part.
So Scorpion King, basically? by MCVamp	Jul 21st, 2008 09:30:57 AM
I'll wait for Netflix, thanks.
I like Djimon Hounsou by kwisatzhaderach	Jul 21st, 2008 09:43:20 AM
Good luck to him with this project.
Black Panther Honsou needs happening by pipergates	Jul 21st, 2008 10:29:07 AM
this sounds very cool but why the heck would they make it without having Conan in it?!
Who? by thebearovingian	Jul 21st, 2008 12:10:46 PM
Wait. Who?
errr...what? by Staldo	Jul 21st, 2008 01:13:09 PM
So we're seeing a prequel to the Conan movies, which featured a character only vaguely reminiscent of the original REH character? It will probably be less low fantasy pulp and more pro wrestling muscle flexing bullshit. If they make another Conan movie, it should be a mo-cap epic ala Beowulf starring Ron Perlman, not a weak-minded crapfest about a guy with big muscles in a loincloth who bangs beautiful women and engages in poorly choreographed swordfights. might as well be Scorpion King if that's the route they're going
DeckardBladeRunner by Lenny8	Jul 21st, 2008 01:25:56 PM
THANK YOU. I was wondering if any AICN writer was going to remember that Thulsa Doom had nothing to do with Conan. I was never sure why they put him in the first Conan movie. Should have made a film version of Red Nails.
You know it'll be good, cuz Hounsou's,... BUFF! by Prague23	Jul 21st, 2008 01:36:34 PM
And when you're buff, who needs acting ability?
Staldo by troutpencil	Jul 21st, 2008 02:02:45 PM
"not a weak-minded crapfest about a guy with big muscles in a loincloth who bangs beautiful women and engages in poorly choreographed swordfights" That is the description of a fantastic movie, not a crapfest. Like Beastmaster or the original Conan, not The Scorpion King which was just boring. If I saw that sentence describing some sword and sandals movie from the 80s I would watch it in a heartbeat. That genre is seriously understocked with good movies. This probably would be closer to that rancid shitfest The Scorpion King than Beastmaster though.
Hannibal Rising meets Amistad... by BrooseTheScharuk	Jul 21st, 2008 03:01:44 PM
...that's what this sounds like. I like Hounsou as an actor, but I think this idea is a little misguided, and likely to trivialize the themes that he seems to want to explore: slavery,colonialism, third-world autocracy, and...um...good wizards gone bad. I'm still holding out for a real Conan adaptation (as opposed to a self-aggrandizing philosophical rumination by a cigar-chomping megalomaniac like John Milius). This Thusla Doom thing sounds highly avoidable. It also sounds like Hounsou was captivated by and is wanting to expand on the little-to-do-with R.E. Howard OR Conan Thusla Doom character in Milius' movie, as opposed to any literary character he may or may not have read about (I'm going with NOT) in Howard's Kull writings.
Should interview Doctor Doom. by mrfan	Jul 21st, 2008 04:20:33 PM
Now, that would be cool news.
Djimon's a cool guy, he'll make it work by smackfu	Jul 21st, 2008 04:25:05 PM
Anytime a good actor is the driving force behind a comic movie, I think that's a good sign that it's going to be handled seriously.
This will be sub-SCORPION KING garbage. by Mosquito March	Jul 21st, 2008 04:52:29 PM
It's got straight-to-video tax-write-off written all over it. I mean, who the fuck really cares about a THULSA DOOM movie? I'm as jazzed about this as I am about the ill-advised MAGNETO movie they keep fucking threatening to make. Who gives a shit?
i sent in a solomon kane script by El Borak	Jul 21st, 2008 04:56:47 PM
recently. i think it's pretty good so far. i have it if anybody cares.
John Milius's KING CONAN!! If only... by Drath	Jul 21st, 2008 05:15:42 PM
With the deaths of Mako and Basil Poledouris, and that fool Schwarzenegger making T3 and his dumb bid for politics, the movie will NEVER happen, or be as great as it would have been if all those people were still involved. Did I mention I'm bitter to have not seen that movie made? I'd trade T3, Salvation, and Sarah Connor Chronicles for one King Conan, sorry T fans.
when i think of Djimon by Mr_X	Jul 21st, 2008 06:59:54 PM
i sometimes think of mustard
Drath by Geekgasm	Jul 21st, 2008 07:18:42 PM
I second the emotion.
"how do you explore.. by El Borak	Jul 21st, 2008 10:31:04 PM
the backstory of a character that has no existing story?" or maybe i should ask, "why create a backstory for a character shoe-horned into conan's story where he shouldn't be in the first place?"
Yeah I still have to call bogus on this... by vintagecrow	Jul 22nd, 2008 06:13:18 AM
...or at best a straight to DvD video... I wish they would just stick to what Howard wrote, it pawns the screen version.
Djimon by El Cimarron	Jul 22nd, 2008 06:55:17 AM
good luck on this and all, just hope that if doesn't go the Vin Diesel/Hannibal the Conqueror (based on a far more interesting story and real character) way and doesn't get made.
Make an Imaro movie instead! by DocPazuzu	Jul 22nd, 2008 10:07:06 AM
This idea is awful. Make a movie based on Charles R. Saunders' sword & sorcery books about Imaro instead. Imaro's like an African Conan, and much more compelling a character than Thulsa Doom. If you've read the Imaro books then you know they'd make a great cinematic property.
lost cause by Staldo	Jul 22nd, 2008 11:23:32 AM
I see making a case for the Robert E. Howard character is a lost cause on here, as most everyone is in love with the Arnold version of the character that spawned a thousand low-budget ripoffs that became prime MST3K material. I feel like the movies took Conan in a disturbingly Gor-esque direction, where it was all about goofy fetishism rather than atmosphere or mythology. There's this thing called source material that dictates a crafty, athletic, articulate Conan that I have yet to see on screen. anachronistic quotes of Genghis Khan in an Austrian accent do not a character make
Lore? Hello? by Darth Macchio	Jul 22nd, 2008 12:47:07 PM
As much as I'd love a movie like this it is hell and gone from any lore and thus would be pure "fiction" created from fiction. This is a movie based purely on the Millius CtB Thulsa Doom creation. It will fail for the same reason any origin story does when not about a super-hero...it destroys the mystery of his motivations. In some cases, knowing that drive can be lead to good character development but in the case of a "prequel" it always fucks with our preconceived notions of the characters motivations and always falls flat. Outside of GF2, where else has any prequel material been told to good effect? Michael Myers used to be an ustoppable force of nature, now he's just a overly large white trash reject still pissed at his mom and step-dad (whatever). Hannibal Lecture is no longer a pure psychotic...now he's an avenging lover seeking redemption for those who insulted his pet milf. And Darth Vader...once the imposing and unyielding harbinger of death and power, tyranny personified and once a brilliant film villain...is now reduced to a fucking whiny dickhead who is filled with self-doubt, jealousy, post maturity teen-angst and an overly large Darth Vader suit (don't get me started). Thulsa Doom, as a film character just isn't that interesting in the first place (his story does not scream for telling does it? honestly?) and even if it does...it destroys the mystery. Thulsa Doom as portrayed in CtB was a noble if brutal tyrant; Jones brought a menace to the character but also a certain dark elegance. Trying to make him out to be a "good guy gone bad" is highly stupid/illogical and really trying to squeeze milk from an acorn. I think this guy is just trying to live down the abject horror of Eragon and that totally fucking batshit stupid klingon(?) wig they made the poor him wear. There are many other projects worthy of this type of attention...like maybe a King Conan or a Red Nails film...it could happen!

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