I read that Kull the Conquerer was supposed to have been the third Conan movie, Conan the Conquerer, but when Schwarzenegger turned it down, they changed it to Kull and hired Sorbo to play the barbarian. Is this true?
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share This character in no way resembeled the character of Kull from the Howard novels. The Kull as originally written was brooding and at times philisophical, whereas this bastardization was a blundering, wisecracking horn dog.
I don't necessarily think this film is that bad, per se, but I think that they should have named it soemthing else and called it an original idea. The only thing here directly from the Howard stories is a handful of the names. Calling it "Kull" was a slap in the face. If thye had just made it as a generic barbarian movie, it could have been an enjoyable time waster, not an insult to one of pulp literature's finest legacies.
Now, about that soundtrack.....
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If this was meant to be a Conan film than it would be the fourth. I think Red Sonja was meant to be the third. I'm not sure if I'm right, I might be.
share The problem is that all of the major Howard characters are owned by seperate entities. So Conan was meant to be in "Sonja", but since Sonja and Conan are/were owned by seperate companies, for whatever reasons it didn't work out. Good thing too, for the sake of Conan's integrity. Besides, Sonja was actually a character from the Crusades era according to Howard's original text. The transposing of her to the Hyborian age was done in the Marvel comics.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Very good points about Red Sonja (spelled Sonya in Howard's story). Most people only know her from the Marvel comics or the film, so don't realize she was supposed to exist centuries later.
Does anyone else think Howard's Solomon Kane would make for a good film?
I would love to see a Solomon Kane film! I propose either "Wings in the Night" or "Moon of Skulls" as the basis for it. There is actually one in the works, but it is progressing very slowly, and it appears that Bran Mak Morn will go before the cameras first, in a movie based on "Worms of the Earth".
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I've read where Solomon Kane has been on-again, off-again. I'm surprised, given the subject matter, that Hammer Films never took a stab at the character. Will be curious to see how BRAN MAK MORN fares.
shareyeah this was meant to be the fourth film after Conan the Barbarian and Destroyer Red Sonja was a spi-off in howards novels and they created a new character who was pretty much conan and Kull was meant to be the fourth but Arnie didnt want it so they got Sorbo instead then thought what is the point of making a Conan film without Arnie looked in the comics and found kull so Wallah the film was meant to be called Conan The Conqueror and Red sonja was meant to be called King Conan but it was going to be the same film as Red sonja just different name and Arnie would be called Conan
shareActually if you took time out from repairing your trailer park homes and read the Robert Howard account of the Hyborean age it would all make sense. Kull was an Atlantean king from circa 100,000 BC. Conan hails from Cimmeria and lopped off heads around 12-15,000 BC. Many throught that Conan was a reincarnation of Kull.
Conan the Barbarian bears little resemblance to the novels, which are hugely entertaining, even though its classic. Destroyer was purely kack only saved by Sarah Douglas in skimpy garb. Kull was uber p*sh but enjoyable if your lying on the living-room carpet in pyjamas wrecked on red wine.
Red Sonja was a embarrassment. Even the celluloid it was shot on refuses to comment on the film!
And, in Howard's story about her (he only wrote one), Red Sonya (Howard's original spelling) lived in the 1500s, long after Kull and Conana. Marvel renamed her Sonja (replacing the "Y" with a "J") and relocated her so she would be a contemporary of Conan's in the comics.
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This is a good movie, though maybe more for the fantasy than the action. I remember watching the Conan movies & Red Sonja back in the 80's, was waiting for Kull to come through the theater locally which never happened...
The childish type of remarks made by above posters are crazy; trailer park homes? drunk on the floor with WINE?! LOL people like this usually fall in to some stereo-type themselves, as they seem to want to see others in some kind of stero-type.
The script to the movie was pretty good..alot better than the movie,though it played out quite similarely.But it has a B-Budget and PG-13 rating. Sorbo was actually very good as Kull,would've made a good Conan to.
The Kull version here as portrayed by Sorbo is actually more like Howard's CONAN character,whereas the Arnold's "CONAN" is really more like Howard's "KULL".
"Kull The Conqueror" needed more of the script scenes(which where probably cut out during editing of the movie),alot of BLood & Gore and a larger budget.
Amazingly "THE SCORPION KING" seemed to have surely ripped-off "KULL" and "CONAN THE BARBARIAN" films..go figure!
I just attended a seminar today given by Charles Edward Pogue. For this film, he talked about how he'd known that the character could end up being Conan (kill first) or Kull (ask questions first), so having read all the true source material, he tried to create a Conan that was as Kull-like as possible, in order to facilitate changing the character to Kull.
He blames the kill-first director for what became of the project.
The cockroach is a noble beast....
From some of the interviews I read of his,he claimed alot of troubles with the producers and had abig falling with the DragonHeart/XXX director,who was originally gonna make this film back in 1996.
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