@Zajczev
Is it me? or our entire conversation on this topic disappeared from the thread???
I would love to see Mel Gibson or Nicolas Winding Refn (from Valhalla Rising) to give a shot to Conan. Although Guillermo del Toro could be interesting too. Peter Jackson is maybe more on the side of high fantasy.
Too bad the studio didn’t took the script 
supposly it was kind of like Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven… guess we’ll never know.
what’s for shame??
That thing Ryu posted above. It’s okay in a vacuum I suppose (and probably funny if you’re a preteen or a pothead) but I am just tired of the fact that the entire output of my country’s animation studios could be summarized as ‘Fart jokes lol’. Thankfully not true any more, but for quite a while it was. Anyway, I’m getting wayyyy off topic!
2 Likes
No problem 
I go off topic all the time speaking of my own country. GRowing in Venezuela it’s like growing in some sick twisted nightmare… it’s kinda like the Exile Lands now that I think about it. No law, everyone is a potential enemy, there is slave work and people die of hunger… well the giant aliens and sand stroms are missing but it’s close enough…
See? I did it again.
1 Like
I guess this is a long shot but… John Carter from Mars have some Conan themes.
Me and acoworker kind of had this discussion. Hollywood is void of rugged hero’s. Hemsworth, Momoa, the Rock are action stars more or less. But each one has a tongue in cheek humor about them. Chris prat same thing. There are no Stallones, Willis’, or Arnie’s. Everyone is too “clean”. And doing a Conan movie requires a more gritty grounded approach. I agree that i like Peter Jackson as a story teller for these time periods, his visual are closer to high fantasy. The original Conan movie had a spaghetti western feel that really made it feel more than a fantasy movie. The 2nd one had more of the fantasy feel, and was a sequel cash grab at the time. I think Tarintino would do wanders with it. And i am not even close to being a fanboy of most of his work. I think the way he shot Inglorious Basterds would fit Conans tone greatly. As for actors…don’t know. Back in Feb, there ws an article Amazon was looking to create a Conan Series on its streaming service. don’t know where that stands right now. But most of thier actors listed are ehhh. Adam Driver interested me. He was rather built in the last jedi shirtless scene 
And he has good acting chops and a non heart throb face.
1 Like
I think Gibson would be more brutal than Tarantino (I never though I’d say that in my life time) for a Conan movie, he has a great managing of silence, while Tarantino have great dialog, I think the silence is very important in Conan (first movie has a lot of it, and in some of the stories is just description after description for pages before someone speek up.
The Amazon series got cancelled I think. As for actors… mmm Driver is good but his face is too thin I believe. Besides, Driver is overkilling it. I mean Conan is not much of a talker anyway I would go for an unknow actor of weird and cofusing ethnic roots… dunno German with apache or something. Conan looks like a guy from a race that does not exist anymore in Frazettas’ art work.
1 Like
Didn’t really think about the dialog. True, Gibson could pull some moments from silence. Tarantino was more the aesthetic i think. But either would be great. I think the silence (including scenes without soundtrack music in back ground, just environmental sounds) and aesthetics are a must. Don’t want a “pretty” scenery movie. And, yeah, need an actor that can pull off “lone wold, so f. off” warrior without words, just expressions and actions.
1 Like
One thing we can agree: Knut Avenstroup Haugen have to do the music. No one else in the world can… I mean not even Hans Zimmer get close to be that perfect for this particular hypothetical project .
We’ll have a few new stories to consider, incoming 2019.
I can predict movies. IMO we should have a “get buff” challenge, so that several of us might be cast to help protect the legacy of Conan?! 
4 Likes
Conan and the avengers looks stupid 
and in the other one, is that an orc behind him?
Why marvel does everything wrong? So weird… but well I guess old Robert E. Howard stories are too brutal for their snowflake brains to handle… god I miss the old days.
I’m all for for the “get buff” challenge, I’m already going to the Gym. Nothing would be better than get cast as Conan and get to say: “No thanks… I’m black… and Conan is… well… not black you freak”
2 Likes
Basil Poledouris’ OST for the 1982 Conan movie is (IMO) one of the more underrated scores (not best, just underrated). Of course the good Mr. Poledouris does suffer from the slight handicap of being dead, so I’ll not enter him into the running, heh.
Well how’s that for alternate motivation! I like it!
1 Like
Interesting! They ask silly questions though:
“the question remains…whose side is Conan really on?”
his own, of course - as always!
1 Like
i would like that post, but i rly didnt like what i see xD
another destroyed franchiese…
just w8 for movie, you will see, and than beg for bing blind
2 Likes
@Multigun can you check the spawn tables and see if Poledouris the Bard is broken?
Joking aside, come on Funcom, we need a tribute to him in the game as a thrall or at least one that you can visit to learn special horns and drums sound recipe.
2 Likes
I think people get too caught up in the nude body/sexuality quandary these days. They equate our earthy barbarianism with personal profligacy.
Once you get past that, the stories are about what the game is about: self-sufficiency, brains and strength independent of gender. It’s unsettling to the folks who are used to old-fashioned literature where we all know our place.
Yeah and I’m too darn handsome to be Conan. 
Some people get dealt the bad cards in life. For fun/recreation I always play as a Pict, because REH was not judgmental. All shades/hues are potentially awesome in these books!
1 Like
This is true, actually Th Hyborian Age, is probably the most diverse fantasy world ever created. Weird some people deamed Howard a racist.
Whereas I turned it down because upstaging Arnie didn’t sit right with me.
Well… he wasn’t really a racist. But his writing is still a product of its time, and is at times quite preoccupied with race as a determiner or “template” of how people are. Which is, perhaps, “racist” - though not in the bad “X is better than Y” kinda way.
To me that’s not a problem, quickly putting people in “boxes” based on race - and a hundred other factors - is not bad, it’s just human nature, and in fact a survival trait. It’s only if you are incapable of looking beyond that it becomes a problem.
Anyway, this topic is getting close to politics, which I’d be happy to discuss at length but this is not the place 
so I’ll stop now.