Thank God!: Brett Ratner is no longer directing Conan the Barbarian!!
One of my all time favorite films is Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1982 film was and still is the perfect "sword and sandal" movie, along with the fact that you can't get much more uber-macho than this film. It's got everything a movie man loves - swords, plentiful killing, plunder, great music, bad ass dialog, a great villain, over the top hot women warriors, orgy's that take place in a temple with a huge pot of green soup with body parts in it! And of course Schwarzenegger in all of his glory as the silent conqueror.
Fucking awesome!
...and it has "the tree of woe". HA!! That's amazing.
Anyhow, ... of course this film was on the block to be remade, especially since Schwarzenegger is way to busy to reprise the role (I'd be willing to wait honestly), but the worst news of all time came to pass - the biggest hack director, Brett Ratner, was going to direct it. That meant, Conan was no longer going to be a bad ass blood soak conqueror - he was going to be a pussy.
Besides Conan, Red Sonja was also on the path to be remade but that film I had more hope in because of Robert Rodriguez's involvement and although that's not a huge praise, I like most of his work. The thing that sold me is that the sexy Rose McGowan will be Sonja. According to Conan and Sonja producer Joe Gatta, he told Empire that Sonja "probably won't happen until next year, as far as making it goes."
The big news is that Gatta confirmed that Ratner is off Conan - feel the breeze.
"We're currently in the process of hiring a director," he told Empire. "For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn't work. But you never know what can happen."
Granted, this news makes my pants tight - the fact that Gatta even wanted Ratner to direct is somewhat disturbing. For that reason alone, I don't know if they're the right people for the job of producing.
The bottom line is that Conan shouldn't be remade - screw it, they should just re-release the original in theaters so I can enjoy it. I really hope they can satisfy fans with a new film but I'm not hopeful at all.
Gatta also say's "We'll have an open casting call; as soon as we hire our director the search is on."
I'll directed it! At least I know what Conan deserves.
-Phil
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The upcoming Conan movie will not be a remake of Conan the Barbarian. Its rumoured that the name will be just Conan or Conan the Cimmerian as its a completely new story, not connected to Milius movie, but to the original literature source from Robert E. Howard a pulp writer from the 1930’s.
But REH’s Conan is even more of a badass than Milius one ever was.
Cheers,
Waldgeist
Hi Waldgeist,
That’s still considered a remake of the original film even if it’s supposed to be closer to the source material.
Don’t get me wrong, I see your point and I’m not trying to downplay it, but in terms of filmmaking, if there has been a movie about a certain world then years later it’s told again without being a direct sequel and something totally new, it gets put into the remake bin.
Really, Robert E. Howard is the way to go, the writing is just electrifying and the mythos is so amazing.
To Phil Chief Editor,
It maybe be categorically a remake but if it is completely different I doubt it will be percieved that way. By that definition Transformers is a remake of the 1986 film, LOTR a remake of the 80s animated movie, and ect.
If you make something stand out on its own enough then fans will not allow you to put a remake tag on it, regardless.
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