Comments on: Re-Killing Robert E. Howard

By: Beau Geste

Beau Geste — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:29:16 +0000

Conan refers to civilized people as “damned degenerates”; Hollywood would not have a hope of getting him correct.

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 20:11:42 +0000

I have an unshakable faith in Hollywood’s ability to mess up everything they touch, but I have to admit I find very attractive the idea of a movie about Conan’s Aquilonian kingship; a sober reflection on the nature of sovereign responsibility and the journey that led him to accept it.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:18:49 +0000

By the way, the next Conan movie is a done deal. Arnold will once again be back in the direct sequel to Barbarian, called The Legend of Conan. The script is ready, and they will start production immediately after Arnold’s Terminator Genisys worldwide promotional tour. "It’s 30 years after the original film, and Conan is facing his mortality and how a legend deals with the fact he’s older, and how does he want to go out." Yes, I do follow the Arnold fans. And I may or may not have been to Thal, the birthplace of Schwarzenegger, where I drank so much local water it made me threw up, thinking it would also somehow make me like him. Good times!

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:46:57 +0000

Agreed that Kull, Sonja and Conan the Destroyer [the sequel] were terrible, though as an adolescent I was mildly entertained by Conan the Destroyer, thanks to the juxtaposition of young and innocent Olivia d'Abo and gorgeous, evil Sarah Douglas. The story barely held together, though, and the acting was so-so at its best. The original Conan I thought was better, taken as a fantasy setting for Milius' vaguely Nietzschean philosophy. I still can't figure out whether or not he meant his version of Thulsa Doom to be taken for an evil Buddhist, evil hippie, or both. But it was not a Conan story, to be sure. Lafond's analogies to Predator and High Plains Drifter are astute — connections I have never made but which seem obvious in retrospect. Insightful.