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Marcus Nispel Directs ‘Conan’!
By FavaBeans | June 12, 2009
Source: Superherohype
Variety has confirmed a CHUD scoop saying that Marcus Nispel will direct Conan for Nu Image/Millennium Films, ending a nine-year development ordeal to reinvent the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982.
Production on the remake is set to start late this year in Bulgaria and South Africa. Nu Image/Millennium is making the film in a co-production with Lionsgate. Avi Lerner and Joe Gatta are producing with Fredrick Malmberg.
The film will be the most financially ambitious ever for Lerner, with a script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, whose credits include Sahara and Cowboys & Aliens.
Nispel will make Conan his third remake, after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.
Nispel said he will blend his childhood imaginings of the character with the influence of the famous Conan illustrations by Frank Frazetta, and the influence of such viscerally violent period films as Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.
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June 12th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Childhood memories? How about taking some stuff from the books themselves? I have a funny feeling that they’re going to screw this up. It’s going to be all blood and gore without any of the feeling of the books.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:22 am
All blood and gore sounds pretty close to the description. I’m not totally against a rather violent depiction, as long as there is some artistry to it and the characters come through.
June 24th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I hope the new actor can actually speak english. Sorry Arnold. If they follow Frazetta’s artistic direction it should be a treat for the eyes! I hope its not rated R. That’ll be a bummer for the kids. Please don’t allow any cheese to find its way into this film!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I always felt the books basically had an R rating feeling. I would expect the movie to follow the same vein.