Marcus Nispel to Direct Conan the Barbarian Remake?
Conan the Barbarian (Remake, 2010) Movie — By Nix on June 12, 2009
Why yes, according to the boys over at CHUD, who says that after Brett Ratner left the project early last month, the studio has been scrambling to find a replacement. For a while there, James McTeigue (”V for Vendetta”) seemed to be in the running. That was before the studio settled on Marcus Nispel, who recently did the “Friday the 13th” remake, and before that, the Viking period actioner “Pathfinder” and the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” reboot.
Basically, if you got a reboot, call Marcus, he’ll do it. Fortunately, the guy’s got a good eye for visuals, and knows a thing or two about orchestrating mayhem by indestructible killing machines, and doesn’t that just describe Conan to a T? Minus the masks, I mean. Of course, I still think the original holds up today and don’t see the point of remaking it, but what do I know.
CHUD says the studio is hoping to start shooting this Summer, possibly in August, but with a shift in directors, and without any semblance of a cast in place (they haven’t even cast the lead yet for some reason), that may prove to be a tad difficult.
Below: “No one reboots Conan! No one! Grrwwaaahahah!”
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There is no need to remake the Conan the Barbarian movie. The story has been told successfully and with quality moviemaking- its a classic.
Instead, the Ron l Howard character has dozens of stories that are until now untold in modern cinema: Conan of Cimmeria, Conan the Usurper, Conan the Conqueror, Conan the Warrior, and many more.
This is sorta stupid… I don’t see why they want to reboot the series just yet… I dunno how many people have read the original Howard stories (the person who created Conan in the first place), but some of his stories tell of an old Conan as a king and the kick-ass adventures he still goes through despite his old age.
I rekon they should just be true to the original stories and do a movie with Arnold as the old King Conan while they still can (especially since both original movies hinted at the possibility but never quite got there and I’m afraid it will be the same with the reboot). I’m saying turn “The Phoenix on the Sword” and “The Scarlet Citadel” into a proper Conan movie. I am sure people would love that!
And yes, I’ve also seen the ‘flabby’ pictures of Arny recently, and no, it doesn’t make me change my mind because similar pictures were floating around just before the filming of T3 and Arnold managed to get into pretty good shape in a relatively short amount of time. I have no doubt he’ll be able to do it again.
I really wish they would make one more Conan film telling the epic tales of King Conan, then reboot the damn series after that if they really have to.
I’m in total agreement,Conan the Barbarian is a perfect piece of film and stands up today just as well as it did almost 30 yrs ago.John Milius directed a masterpiece and nobody can ever replace Arnold Schwarzenegger in this role.Even though Destroyer sucked balls,i’ve long awaited Conan The King as Arnold’s final return to this epic character and to me that’s the only option but now that he’s the governator that’ll probably never happen
I agree, there is no use to rehash the same storyline. If anything the character of Conan can be put into any adventure story and it will write itself. If Hollywood is that void of creativity that no one there can write a new Conan story with the hundreds of comics to base it on then we are truly at an all-time creative low. Don’t go and destroy something that is a classic and was perfectly done the 1st time