More Plot Details Revealed For Conan The Barbarian!

@teabag

more like Conan The Blobbarian

It makes it sound as if Zym is the main character.

Sounds good so far! Great enough plot for the first movie!
Hope Thoth-Amon, Lord Zula and Belit comes in, in sequel!

@teabag... you're not the only one... it was the best "kid-friendly" version of Conan Asskickery we've ever seen at the time - sure it had some WTF moments, but hell - it was the first time anyone tried to combine the Robert E Howard Conan mythos into one long semi-coherent story from beginning to end as an animated series.

This is going to suck eggs!!!!

wtf is up with his hair?!

God I want this to be a good movie but everything tells me otherwise....

I've said it before, and I'll say it again- - I think that Jason Momoa would make a great Lobo. What do you guys think?

DANNYDREG@, yeah, Momoa would be alright for
LOBO but he SURE ISN'T CONAN!

But I'd rather have an actually giant person
to play LOBO like 6'7" KEVIN DURAND!

Man, I hate CGI! Except maybe for THE HULK,
CGI is just stupidly cartoonish-animated
looking!

Can't they just make an accurate CONAN, just once!

Schwarzenegger looked more like him but that CONAN
wasn't totally accurate either.

Oh, well! Hollywood never makes anything accurate
but NISPEL is the worst of the bunch!

@ DDD - NO YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT!

The "real Conan" from the novels isn't an ancient Irishman, that's a common misinterpretation. He's from a "Mythical" race from a "Mythical" race that resembles the Proto Celts and is bronzed in his skin from many travels from his youth, blue eyes and black hair.

His race settles to a "Mythical" land where Northen Ireland and Scotland will later be after the Destruction of "Mythical Atlantis".

Despite the vast lengths Robert Howard went through to not assign his character to any place or region definitive to our map of the known world, people keep calling him an ancient Irishman due to the mythical setting of where his people would later settle, not where they came from nor the fact his physical description is not a-typical Irish whatsoever. Howard simply describes him as big, muscled, black haired and blue eyed, wearing whatever clothing suited where he was wandering and stronger than any man although not taller (Howard later described him as 6'0 when he was 15years old so in adulthood anything from 6'2 to 6'6). Sullen and brooding in expression and sometimes wearing a horned helmet and agile as a panther despite his great size.

Arnold isn't tanned, never was as Conan and although blue eyed has brown hair and actually 5'10 in height instead of the 6'2 he constantly lies about being for impressions sake. Heavily muscled Arnie is but agile as a panther...? No chance, Arnie is far from fighting physique.

Jason Moma is tanned, isn't blue eyed but has black hair (browns in the sun) and is 6'4 and has bulked up but not over the top so as to remain agile (agile as a panther remains to be seen) Has sullen features to replicate the brooding aspect of Conan.

In short, Jason has more in common with the character description than Arnie did plus he can act which Arnie could never do.

Frank Frazetta has pretty much influence the whole look of Conan in art with this one picture that hits the brooding look on the nail! But other artists today kinda get closer to the Robert Howard description.


Jason has the look in the face of the sullen, brooding Conan that Arnie never could perform despite his great physique, nice costumes and props.


Arnolds problem is his goofy acting which leads to him pulling clueless faces like this no matter what character he's playing..



While Jason as an actor will keep that crap in check hopefully and stay in character for more like this..




To attempt to capture the essence of this..


So in truth they're getting more right than wrong with this latest version and it's looking a lot more like the world Howard describes with the creatures and characters they've been unveiling in photos. The production looks good so far and we should wait and see how well they deliver before shooting it down as another prop fest like the Arnold films that literally flopped massively at the box office and just became cult faves for fanboys due to Arnolds popularity despite the lack of quality in the features.

Because it shows he makes those faces even when he's not acting! One picture is him fooling about with Grace Jones and the other is him in the actual first movie in action. He doesn't perform rage or menace, its his extremely limited, monotone range of playing Arnold no matter what role you give him with that same old Austrian Accent that every fanboy gives a wide pass to whether he's playing a Vietnam vet, a secret agent or a highly advanced robot from the future. In short, Arnie is the most overrated but fortunate performers ever to make a career out of pretending to be an actor. He can only play himself and nothing else no matter how much you doll him up with props!

Naturally I'm no Arnie fan, I liked the movies from the 80's but I was a young man when I saw them and short of the great music they weren't very good movies. Yet Arnie followers seem to think NOBODY is worthy of playing Conan except him when he can't play anything but Arnie! People really need to move on and give this version its chance to do justice to the source material without trying to cement Arnie as the definitive Conan he most definitely is not!

CeeJay Come clean, dude lol. You say there's no rage or menace in Arnold's CONAN but you specifically looked for a silly picture knowing there are SEVERAL shots of him being menacing in the movie. Then you say the set shot shows that "he makes those faces even when he's not acting". What does that even mean? Have you ever seen a gag reel? What is Momoa doing when he's not "acting"? He's posing for underwear ads and laughing. But you don't hold that against him so your opinion is clouded in a bias point of view.

Arnold's Conan is obviously relevent. You can't even speak on Momao without mentioning it or tearing it down. I never really understood the comparing of older versions to new versions as if they were made in the same era. It's like comparing STAR WARS CGI to STAR WARS puppets and models. Arnold's Conan made it's impact in the time it was released. It's considered a classic among many, and even those who aren't fond of it, are familiar with it. Conan 3D will not achieve this. But if you want to highlight Momaoa's attributes, it's probably more constructive and original to do it on his own merit- without using Arnie as a jump off point. Just sayin.

Enjoy your week.

@DDD why u hating on Momoa's Conan man... They race bend in hollywood all the time.... In this summers GL they replaced a Native American Character for some sorta South pacific islander guy... No one b!tched about that....
and your hating without even seeing a single frame of film....

@ Blacksands- The Cartoon rocked. There was supposed top be an animated film for "The Red Nails" story, and Ron perlman was voicing but it fell into developmental hell. Was gonna be adult too! *SIGH*

@Ceejay - well done, man! The first Conan is already a classic. I think if they put another mr universe in the role will turn the whole thing into just a mimic, a mere pastiche. I think this reboot [I hope so] will go on by Barry Windsor Smith kind of path, what is fine by me! Still have hope.

well, i do wish the story was a little more "Conan Accurate" but sounds like it will have a better story than the original Conan the barbarian movies, which I still like the old Conan movies. So hopefully this new movie will be really good and not all special effects and a crappy storyline like a lot of movies that have come out lately. So i cant wait to see it, but if I become a Director someday I am going to make an actual accurate Conan movie strait from the books and comics. make it as accurate as possible.