I was checking out the pages of some swordmakers, Jody Samson's in particular, the guy who built the original two legendary swords of Conan, the Atlantean sword and his father's sword. They've just gotten around to recreating them by the way, so there were some nice piccies.
So anyway, I read about this rumour that producer John Milius has been working for some time at the Conan III project. I thought "Well, Arnold IS a bit old but it would work since Conan is to be older too, in this script". Yes, the early rumours were brought up on "Ain't It Cool News", but it's grown since then. I also read about the Wachowski brothers being on the staff too (The Matrix), and it's been said that in the movies, Arnold's plays as good as his producer/director. Well then I've got a good feeling about this.
Let's face it, "Conan" was a revolution in the Fantasy/adventure genre, to me it's one of the classics. Even the second film was pretty good, along with Red Sonia. And now would be the perfect time to do a sequel, Arnold is still in good shape, the Wachowski's are still going up. Also, the CGI of today could do some awesome sceneries of the age between the doom of Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Arius. Oh, and Mako is said to have joined the cast too (Conan's magician and chronicler)! :-)
Now if only they could get Basil Polidouris for the musical score again, I'll be the proverbial happy camper.
Thoughts? (Oh, and never mind my .sig, I love Arnold. He's like the son I never had)
[ August 30, 2001: Message edited by: G.K Nimrod ]
Posted by MeGotBeer (Member # 411) on :
Nim,
Buddy. Pal. You're 22. You've lots of time left to have kids.
Posted by G.K Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Nono, you see in Sweden we divide everything by two, including our dicks. Also, housemoose. Now, thoughts?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
"What the hell?" is pretty much it.
Posted by Wes1701E (Member # 212) on :
Conan 1 was awesome. Conan 2 sucked... conan 3 awesome again?
Posted by G.K Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Maybe, the premise sounds cool and they seemed to have abanodoned the early decision to have The Rock play Conan. Here's the story from "Ain'tItCool", I haven't read through all of it, there's a 146-page draft from the early stage of the script, I don't want to know too much.
What can be divulged, however, is the premise. ($$$$) "Like Tennyson's Ulysses, an aged King Conan sets out on one last great adventure."
I am very fond of the setting and era of the Conan films, I really long to see something more from it.
Sol: That was my first thought too. :.)
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I would love to see this movie made. I didn't think Arnold was too old to do this kind of thing when they made...what was it...the one with the Hercules guy in it? Kull The Conquerer. Wasn't that supposed to be the third Conan movie? Then Arnold didn't want to do it so they got Herc to play his father.
Or maybe I'm confused.
Anyway, I love the idea of seeing an older Conan having finally gotten the Kingdom he was promised. I think it would rock. And seeing Mako back would be even better.
Posted by MeGotBeer (Member # 411) on :
Waitasec ...
"Kull" is a prequel to Conan?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I think I heard that in an interview once. That when they couldn't make it the third Conan movie, they decided to make Kull Conan's father.
I may be wrong, but I thought that's what I head.
Posted by G.K Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Well thank godness it wasn't Conan III, that could've totally killed the franchise. I've read nothing about Kull being a prequel, I don't think it's widely accepted. I mean come on, a lukewarm PG-13 movie proclaiming itself the foundation of the Conan series? An insult to proper gore, I say! ;-)
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I recently purchased the DVD and was reminded how much I loved the film. (Conan and Kull are both from the R.E.Howard books.) Kull is not his father, at least not in the Conan movie, can't speak for Kull, 'cause I haven't seen it.
Posted by G.K Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
That is a very detailed analysis. It makes you appreciate the movie more. I want the Conan DVD too, it's been on my list since I got DVD, but the stores I go to can't import it out of some restriction about Region 1.
