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CONAN 3?

posted 21 years ago by clh-1
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Since this has the star of Conan, the setting of Conan, the ass-whooping swordfights of Conan, why did the studio just not make Conan 3?

Maybe they would have treated the story with a little bit more respect. I think that a Conan 3 would have been infinitely preferable to this junk. Why did Arnold do this? Did he owe the mob money? I have long been a fan of Schwarzenegger, I even liked the Sixth Day and Collateral Damage, but what the hell is this? Give the public a Conan rip-off and they feel ripped off, but a real Conan movie would be damn cool.

For that matter does anyone know what happened to the planned Conan 3? I heard it was in the works along with True Lies 2 and T3, but only T3 got made. They pulled the plug on the other two even before he became governor, so what happened?

I know I am rambling incoherently.
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[–] slickyz 21 years ago

For Conan 3, last i heard it was still in the works but will focus on conan's son as conan would now be old and king. I heard wrestler triple H is in the running to star, but nothing official yet as the script aint even final.

[–] kyjoe 21 years ago

The latest info about King Conan says that WB is pushing to wait till Arnold is out of office and have him reprise his role. So Triple H may be out.

[–] dereksevilclone 21 years ago

Not knocking Triple H or his dubious acting skills, but I would indeed much prefer to see Arnold back in the seat as Conan, and hopefully with John Milius directing. Milius did take some artistic license with Robert E. Howard's work, but the film was largely respectful and worked on most levels. Now all we would need is a good writer. Any thoughts? First one to say Charlie Kaufman or the Waschowski Brothers DIES.....
Course, Woody Allen could write and direct, making Conan a middle aged neurotic New Yorker, whose quirks at first alienate then ultimately attract the female lead....before becoming KIng...

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[–] jesse-acosta 20 years ago

This film was before Arnold had become a big action star. Secondly, this film has nothing to do with Conan, so why call it Conan? Red Sonja didn't even appear in any of REH's works.

[–] kyjoe 20 years ago

I know this is the Red Sonja board, but we're talking about an actual Conan 3 here and not Red Sonja. There have been talks the past couple of years of Arnold returning to make another Conan movie. This "King Conan" would tell the story of how Conan became king(a continuation of the epilogue from the first movie).

[–] jesse-acosta 20 years ago

My response was actually intended for the first message of this thread where the person is saying they should have called it Conan 3.

But a 3rd Conan would be very nice. Ide like to see Arnold returning as Conan myself, but many didn't like him as Conan. The only problem I had was that they didn't dye his hair black, like a real Cimmerian.

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[–] kyjoe 20 years ago

Oh, sorry then. I read your post the wrong way.

[–] Embee-El 20 years ago

Actually, this film came after Schwarzenegger had hit it big with Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer and The Terminator. He was contractually obligated to do this film. In fact, they were originally going to make his character Conan because the character of Red Sonja first appeared in Conan stories (in the comics not the Howard books) and was spun-off into her own series of adventures. For whatever reasons - I'm sure to preserve the "integrity" of the Conan character from this drivel - they changed the name of his character.

[–] timhayes-1 20 years ago

It's too bad that this film turned out the way it did because the comics were really quite fun and entertaining. Conan popped up all the time in those days as an on again off again love interest for Sonja. If only they'd have gotten a better script. And kept Sonja's chain mail bikini from the comics for a little bit of titillation.

[–] gvsamoore 20 years ago

Apparently Woody Allen has been chosen as the actor to play Conan the Barbarian in Conan 3. He is presently doing weights training in a remote Bavarian health farm and is being trained by a speech impediment expert so he can learn to grunt his lines of dialogue unlike his crappy own movies.