Conan remake

Damocles74 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:48 am **Posts:** 1033

Just a sneak pic of the actor, but...tells you all you need to know really.

Rose mcgowan is in it as well.

Phantos · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:17 pm

He's so dreamy...

juggernaut · **Joined:** Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:34 pm **Posts:** 68

That's a goddamn shame. He looks like a chick. It doesn't surprise me though...you could definitely expect them to ruin it by picking the wrong actor. They should have cast this guy:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&expI ... 41&bih=433

HORNS · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:06 pm

STRAIGHT to dvd!

Karl Hungus · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:24 pm **Posts:** 1394

the closer it gets to release, the more I dont want to see it

Im with the camp that didnt want to ever see the original remade..Im sure all the tricks will be pulled out for this one; slow motion fight scenes, excessive cgi, crap metalfest soundtrack

Karl Hungus · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:24 pm **Posts:** 1394

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/new-cona ... iillaging/

willb · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:46 pm

I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea.

Damned Dave W · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:00 pm

FUCK!

giantchris · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:52 pm

Thats the same guy thats playing Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones I think. Just looking at the casting now is that THE Bob Sapp? What the hell?

And the director has some bizzare credits he did the newer Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th and he directed a Cher and George Michaels video???

Damocles74 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:48 am **Posts:** 1033

This can't be good. Conan doesn't wear paperboy hats, drink lattes or rock sandals..with socks no less! (the fucking Lisa Bonet part is cool though).

Mr Red · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:18 am

Oh man...

mortlock · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:53 am

i was actually really looking forward to this, but not so much anymore..
fuck..i had high hopes..if done right it could have been amazing..

Jam8 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:06 pm **Posts:** 381

What is the fascination with bodybuilders?

Conan would not have looked like Arnold or any body builder. Period. Anyone who thinks that has zero clue about Conan and is only going from the fact that Arnold was in the 80s movies.

That wasn't really Conan, not Robert E. Howard's Conan. No way on earth a bodybuilder could move like REH's Conan could (fast, 'like a panther'), or survive the type of life Conan lead. He was a thief, not many muscle bound thieves. Conan would look more like an MMA fighter than a bodybuilder, if not slimmer. He was strong, but he wasn't waddling around unable to wipe his own ass.

As for sandals?
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." — Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, 1932.

So, yeah, that's wrong, too.

Edit:
And technically, this is not a remake, but another adaptation of the same source material, much like True Grit, which was based upon the same novel but more true to it than the original. The 80s Conan movies changed a lot about Conan, he was born on a battlefield in the stories, and his parents were still alive when he left home to wander. He was never a child slave, either.

mortlock · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:57 am

troy polamalu should have been cast for the lead in conan..

AresOnasis · **Joined:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:26 am **Posts:** 781

Jam8 wrote:

What is the fascination with bodybuilders?

Conan would not have looked like Arnold or any body builder. Period. Anyone who thinks that has zero clue about Conan and is only going from the fact that Arnold was in the 80s movies.

That wasn't really Conan, not Robert E. Howard's Conan. No way on earth a bodybuilder could move like REH's Conan could (fast, 'like a panther'), or survive the type of life Conan lead. He was a thief, not many muscle bound thieves. Conan would look more like an MMA fighter than a bodybuilder, if not slimmer. He was strong, but he wasn't waddling around unable to wipe his own ass.

As for sandals?
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." — Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, 1932.

So, yeah, that's wrong, too.

Edit:
And technically, this is not a remake, but another adaptation of the same source material, much like True Grit, which was based upon the same novel but more true to it than the original. The 80s Conan movies changed a lot about Conan, he was born on a battlefield in the stories, and his parents were still alive when he left home to wander. He was never a child slave, either.

Truth

viken · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 117

I don't care what he looks like so long as he punches the fuck out of a camel.

Ayek · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:23 am

viken wrote:

I don't care what he looks like so long as he punches the fuck out of a camel.

I concur

Mr. Bastard · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:34 am

viken wrote:

I don't care what he looks like so long as he punches the fuck out of a camel.

No camel scene = boycott

lukecubed · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:59 pm

Is this a remake or something else?

I'd really love to see them do a movie actually based on the stories, like a full-length "Beyond the Black River." I like the first movie, but, lets be honest, it could have been much truer to the spirit of Howard, no?

I'm sure this won't be that film, butstill...

hairyneil · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:11 am

Johnny Problem · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:13 pm

Jason Mamoa used to be engaged to way hotter chick than Lisa Bonet.

Damocles74 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:48 am **Posts:** 1033

^ it does seem odd, fucking heathcliff hugstable's daughter, but maybe not.

She's got that Shannyn Sossamon indie-hop hot mess vibe going on. That kind off sexuality is like leaving a butterscotch candy on the windowsill in full summer heat.

EGO the LP · **Joined:** Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:45 am **Posts:** 225

Since they've announced the new Conan movie it's been a surprise to me to see how many people seem to think that the 80's movie is some unbeatable don't-bother-goin'-there-again shit. Don't get me wrong, it was cool and all and AHnold did a good job, but there's tons of way better Conan shit out there (probably 200 better stories in Savage Sword Of Conan alone - and the script for Conan the Destroyer might actually be the worst Conan story ever published) and He's not the definitive Conan by a long shot.

I'm not super hyped, my guess is that Hollywood's amazing ability to fuck up anything good is gonna win out, but I wouldn't be all that surprised if it turns out all right.

Damocles74 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:48 am **Posts:** 1033

Well, this is the Director (Marcus Nispel)

And the closest thing he's done to a warrior epic was Pathfinder with Karl Urban (Eomer from lotr).

I saw it and I'll say this: there's more to a protagonist than dirtied up, assymetrically scarred grim glowering and terse dialogue.

I'm not expecting The Maltese Falcon, but I want a little more substance than eye candy to get rock chics wet.

reefer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:26 pm

They should get the band Conan to do the score for the movie.

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