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Conan The Barbarian 3 director announced

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Variety has confirmed a CHUD scoop saying that Marcus Nispel will direct Conan for Nu Image/Millennium Films, ending a nine-year development ordeal to reinvent the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982.

Production on the remake is set to start late this year in Bulgaria and South Africa. Nu Image/Millennium is making the film in a co-production with Lionsgate. Avi Lerner and Joe Gatta are producing with Fredrick Malmberg.

The film will be the most financially ambitious ever for Lerner, with a script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, whose credits include Sahara and Cowboys & Aliens.

Nispel will make Conan his third remake, after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56224

From the guy that did TCM and F13 reboot? I guess they could have picked worse.:lol:
 
There were four directors in the mix to helm the Conan reboot after Brett Ratner left the project: Marcus Nispel, James McTeague, Christophe Gans, and Neil Marshall. I was hoping it would go to either McTeague or Marshall, and I'm disappointed that Nispel has ended up getting the job, especially given how crappy Pathfinder was. I'll hope for the best, but I'm not optimistic.
 
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
There were four directors in the mix to helm the Conan reboot after Brett Ratner left the project: Marcus Nispel, James McTeague, Christophe Gans, and Neil Marshall. I was hoping it would go to either McTeague or Marshall, and I'm disappointed that Nispel has ended up getting the job, especially given how crappy Pathfinder was. I'll hope for the best, but I'm not optimistic.
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I liked the F13 remake. But Nispel has only done a few movies and they obviously didn't want to hire a big name director. I only hope they don't make CTB3 too serious. What I liked about the first movie was how fun it was.
 
I liked the TCM remake well enough, and I haven't seen the F13 remake yet. But Pathfinder, which is the closest in genre to Conan, was pretty bad.
 
:sigh:

I was hoping for McTeigue. Marshall probably would have been good, too. Heck, even Christophe Gans probably would have done a decent job. Nispel was probably asking for the least amount of money. :scream:
 
Uuh.. good casting choice.

The Rock is one of the very few ex-wrestlers who has a shred of acting abilty and he fits the role physically.

Anyway.. i'm curious if they can come up with the same amount of iconic dialogue and one-liners. It will be hard for them to come close to Schwarzenegger because it was the perfect role for him (not much talk or facial experession but lots of action).
 
Aside from the fact that The Rock doesn't look anything like Conan (then again, neither did Schwarzenegger), and that he's a really obvious casting choice, he'd probably be decent.

This is a role that should really go to an unknown or a little-known, though. The problem is people want to cast a bodybuilder as Conan, when he's not supposed to look like that. He's very muscular, but built in such a way that allows him to be quick and agile. A bodybuilder he is not.
 
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Aside from the fact that The Rock doesn't look anything like Conan (then again, neither did Schwarzenegger), and that he's a really obvious casting choice, he'd probably be decent.

This is a role that should really go to an unknown or a little-known, though. The problem is people want to cast a bodybuilder as Conan, when he's not supposed to look like that. He's very muscular, but built in such a way that allows him to be quick and agile. A bodybuilder he is not.
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Someone did a promo poster of Rock as Conan awhile back...looked pretty good.

Oh well, we still have Scorpion King...which was Conan for the 21st century anyways.
 
I see Neil Marshall, who was one of the four in contention to make this, is supposedly going to do Predators instead. Another Arnie connection.

It's somewhat incorrect to call this CTB 3 - it's a brand new series. Although I really liked the Conan strips as a kid, I hated and still hate the movie versions and just don't get the love for Milius' version, even if Milius is a genuinely interesting director.

I have no strong views on this director, not having seen any of his movies, but he's bound to be better than Brett Ratner. I like the influence he cites on how he's gonna do Conan visually, so that's a good start.

Casting wise, I'd prefer that they went with someone like Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson or Javier Bardem than another muscleman but I could live with Vin Diesel (in a wig).
 
Captaindemotion said:
It's somewhat incorrect to call this CTB 3 - it's a brand new series. Although I really liked the Conan strips as a kid, I hated and still hate the movie versions and just don't get the love for Milius' version, even if Milius is a genuinely interesting director.
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Milius's version may have departed from Howard's canon, but it was damned good in its own right, and deeply intellectual and philosophical for a movie about a guy with a sword out for revenge.

Plus, it has great lines.

"That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe. Crucify him."
 
I was still hoping Arnie would do a "Conan the King" movie, building off that magnificent image of him on the throne that ended the first films.

I loved the first film. I don't care that Arnie's look was wrong, or that it didn't follow Howard, but because it was one of the most well-made movies ever. It was visually stunning thanks to Milius, and Polidouras' soundtrack was equally stunning. Together, they crafted a perfect visual/aural filmgoing experience. The first ten(?) minutes of the movie, through the raid on Conan's village, where sound, music and image tell the story perfectly without a single line of dialog, should be required viewing for every film student on Earth.
 
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