Member dionbrother Posted May 24, 2009 Member Share Posted May 24, 2009 Saw CONAN on opening weekend with my dad in 1982. Nobody was cheering. The audience was bored to tears. The movie drags on the big screen. Most of its reputation is based on endless cable airings in the 80s. It was considered a disappointment at the box office, which is why DESTROYER was a PG rated move. Believe it or not, THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER(which beat CONAN to the theaters by at least two months) was a more profitable movie! Conan is not a lumbering oaf in the stories. He's more like a young Jack Palance character, cunning, quick and tough. Arnold didn't have a real hit until THE TERMINATOR. And really didn't develop his screen presence for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted June 20, 2009 Member Share Posted June 20, 2009 #1 THE NEW CONAN HAS BEEN FOUND, AND HE'S A LOT LIKE THE OLD ONE Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium have apparently settled upon their choice for the star of the new Conan movie, and he bears a lot of similarities to the original movie Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Roland Kickinger is a 41 year old Austrian bodybuilder-turned-actor, whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger was a 35 year old Austrian bodybuilder-turned-actor when he starred in 1982's Conan the Barbarian. Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the first three Terminator movies, and Roland Kickinger played a T-800 robot in Terminator: Salvation. Also, Roland Kickinger actually played Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2005 A&E made-for-cable biopic See Arnold Run. The casting of Roland Kickinger seems to be an attempt to hew as closely to Schwarzenegger's films as possible. Hopefully this reboot will attempt to bring in more elements of the awesome sword & sorcery lore and mythology of Robert E. Howard's original stories (though many fans feel the movies were quite unfaithful to Howard's stories). Filming of Conan begins in the fall of 2009 in Bulgaria, and will be directed by Marcus Nispel (the remakes of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) from a script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (cowriters of Sahara and A Sound of Thunder). The Hollywood Reporter ends their article with a zinger that I have to repeat: "No word on whether Arnold will make a cameo -- or on whether Kickinger will run for governor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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