Everybody here at The Hollywood News, and when I say everyone, I say me, is very excited about a new Conan movie, and in particular a brand new film that will star one Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, today the film’s writer/ producer Chris Morgan, about what we can expect from the new movie, titled THE LEGEND OF CONAN , and how selling the film to Arnie was such a hard deal.
This is how he did it:
He told Schwarzenegger; “[It’s] not a reboot, not a remake. Just an update. Where has the character been all this time? A catch-up with Conan.”
He says: “He’s not going out and fighting battles, but he ends up getting drawn into something and he has to access the barbarian he was in his youth. I love that Conan has been many things in his life, notably a pirate, a major tactician and a commander of men. In this movie, we’re going to tap into some of those things, things you haven’t seen on screen yet.
“I want the warrior whose joints have started to fuse together, who has to crack the cartilage so he can pick up a sword again. I want the guy who’s not necessarily lost a step, but there’s some rust he has to shake off. I want to embrace that. It makes it a greater hero story.”
“Conan needs to be faced with challenges. The greatest challenge to him isn’t the armies that are set before him. It’s, on some level, self-doubt, a little bit of slowing down and forcing yourself to be heroic beyond what people expect of you. What I don’t want is for him to step back in and look the same. That would defeat the purpose of our story.”
The word around the camp fire is that the film will follow on from the events of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the 1984 version, and not the recent turkey.
The film is all set for 2014 release date, a nice round 30 years after the original.
Source: Hero Complex
