Screenwriter Behind Conan the Barbarian Talks Robert E. Howard, Rating And More!

Trailer looked good, film looks way better and finally will separate the Conan fans from the Arnie fans. Should deliver a decent box office enough for a sequel hopefully and bury the stink of those horrible 80's films forever.

Looking forward to see if they reboot Red Sonja

theIntruder@ Have you ever read Howard's books? From watching the trailers I see much more of Howard's world of Hyboria than the prior movie did. The sets, the fantasy element, Conan's fighting style, his look, the characters....dunno...it's as if you are looking at something completely different than what I watched.

@Ceejay: Even so, she's a pretty strong and likeable character in those comics. Just dont make her crossover or anything like that.

Need to see a Red Band trailer !!!

The definition of "fanboy" is often wrong on this site. I notice people have their own idea of what it is, and it's the complete opposite lol.

Between James Earl Jones and the voice narrating the movie, the 80's version had zero acting whatsoever. Arnold didn't have a clue what he was portraying, he just posed a lot swinging his sword and dressed up in a lot of campy costumes.

ceejay@ Red Sonja is originally a pirate that Conan hangs with for a while in the books.

RamonSuarez I was making a point after someone brought up Arnolds acting as if Mamoa was an Oscar contender. That is if that was indirectly directed at me.

Also, a "Fanboy" is someone who likes ANYTHING that's done with a film, character, book or whatever. No matter how shitty it is, they will make excuses for it and find ways to say it's good. Just thought I'd point that out.

SirPrize@ PERFECT!:)

Sweetre15@ Agree! I very much doubt that that rock music is the theme of this movie!

Holy shit, what happens if i agree with Ceejay AND NeoBaggins??? Now we're really [frick]ed!!!

In support of NeoBaggins, when Arnold's Conan came out you could in fact buy the soundtrack. I know because I did.

I'm always abit surprised when people say that Arnold played a big dumb version of Conan. The film states that he studied language, poetry and philosophy. Conan isn't a chatty character, do people expect him to dive into Hamlet's soliloquy to prove his intelligence? That's not Conan.

And yes you can be a fan of the Arnold film without being a fanboy. There is alot of hate on the Arnold film by people who havent watched the anniversary edition or listened to the commentary on the film itself and how it was made and what they were trying to do. The first film was a set up for the forging of Conan. That's why the film opens with the forging of a sword. The plan was to do 3 films ending with King Conan. Unfortunately, the studio scrapped the idea and crapped out a second film to cash in, while giving up the previous theme.

What's really sad is that I don't hear anyone talking about this film or Momoa's acting ability. Don't defend this film by bashing Arnold. Tell us what Momoa can do and point to his previous work. Tell us something about the director OF THIS FILM or maybe from this script that has you so impressed.

That's just great! RED NAILS!! [frick] yeah!!
@CeeJay, Sonja and Sonya are the same. The phonetics is equal... just like Nadja = Nadia. The J sounds as I.

@ OneEyedWillie: Yes & No. They used the phonetic change for Legal reasons. They had an article on it a while back. Don't remember where....

Anyways

@ NeoBaggins you seem to just be arguing. The Old movies sucked and you may have loved them like most people in that time did. I Love those movies. I bought them on VHS as well, not for the sound track, rather because I wanted to see Arnie hold heavy things and slowly slash people LMAO. The Movies sucked, not opinion, they were Factually awful.

@ Siolentvex: This movie is much closer to the Source material. A fan of the books can find appreciate this film for that. The acting could be horrible in this film and be better then the acting in the classic films.

My reasons for liking this would be.

1. Momoa is in prime shape and looks more like what I had imagined Conan looking as I grew up.

2. Mamoa has had extensive Sword & Combat Training prior to this film. He is an excellent athlete and still brings a large presence. This makes him a greater candidate to play the character over Arnold having simply, a look they liked. So if his acting is remarkably worse then Arnies, he can at least fight! So in my sensible eyes, hes already a better Conan.

3. The director has been pretty much all Miss no Hit. But this can be attributed to him making Remakes. The films he has done have all showed what he can do with brutal sequences and gory Violence. Plus, unlike the rest of the world I enjoyed Pathfinder. I guess everyone thought they were going to see Gods gift to man on film, I saw exactly what I expected from the film. This is his big movie, I feel he has had a rough training but it has honed his vision for this film. And he is at a midpoint between Re-Make and Untouched Tale.



P.S. A Fanboy is someone who holds excess criticism over something they love. Weather they are soft stroking a terrible actor because they love there favorite character and hes playing him. OR! They are trying to Crucify an actor for being nothing like what he envisioned as his character. Both are classified as Fanboy and many have fallen in this category on this Thread.

@Sweetre15
1) Your first point is Momoa 'has the right voice'? How so?
Don't get me wrong I think Momoa can play the part but what exactly do you mean?

2) Your second argument is flawed. Conan did spend a short period of time as a captive while still in his youth in the Conan stories. Sure he wasnt captured as a child but he was a 'slave' for a brief period. In addition, Howard's style of writing, while highly enjoyable, was not filled with prose by Conan as you suggest. Kindly point us to which Conan stories you are refering too. I think you will find Conan thought a great deal but said little.

3) This is purely subjective. I think it's a great Conan film.

@ThaMessenger07-- Just to toss it out there but Arnold had extensive sword training as well prior to the first film. The clips of the new film look nothing like actual sword combat. It's typical Hollywood swordplay and cheesy swordplay @ that.

@ magic8 you hate more then like so that is not a surprise coming from you.

@ Neo: Always a pleasure.

@Siolentvex: I mean Mamoa had actual combat and Sword Training, before this film and Stargate. Arnold trained for the movie. The Combat is always displayed more Flamboyant on film. It is not as pretty to see real combat, but this film in the trailer alone displayed better sword play.

Also what would you know of actual Sword Play?
Not to sound condescending, just a question.