About a month ago Latino Review broke the scoop that Mickey Rourke was in consideration to play the father of Conan in the new Marcus Nispel-directed Conan the Barbarian. Now the Heat Vision Blog has confirmed this and says that despite a few bumps in the road, Rourke is in negotiations to take the role.
Also coming to Conan: a new script. Which is great news, since the latest one was a piece of shit. What will change now is anybody’s guess, but Superherohype has learned that Sean Hood has been brought on to give the script one last once over before the production heads to Bulgaria and they rewrite the movie page by page on set (come on, that’s just how it happens these days). Hood has a bunch of horror credits under his belt, including Halloween Resurrection and Sick Girl, the Lucky McKee episode of Masters of Horror. There’s nothing on Hood’s resume that cries out greatness, but then again this is a Conan movie directed by Marcus Nispel and starring the dreadlock dude from Stargate Whatever, so the writer of The Crow: Wicked Prayer is certainly in good company.
Hood probably got the job after writing a Hercules movie for Millenium, the Conan producers. Also likely helpful: Subterannean, a script he developed with Nispel.
Conan the Barbarian shoots on March 15th.
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Should be a musical
I like to pretend there are multiple Mickey Rourkes.
It's a damn shame the way this thing is shaping up. Everything about it just screams godawful SyFy shitfest. Guess everything rests on the shoulders of Clash of the Titans and Solomon Kane.
There is, and only ever will be, one Conan movie.
Devin why the hate in comment #5?? I think we've kept the comments civil. I don't understand. Anyways, Conan is due for an update. With today's visual effects it would be nice to see this coming together. I for one can't wait.
I'm guessing the 'cocksucker''s post has been removed… Now I'm curious.
If the guy has wrinkles, his skin is probably dehydrated. Drink more water, and I mean sip it slowly or else it'll just go through you without being absorbed, and the wrinkles should visibly be reduced.
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Idiots like you are the reason that CHUD should never have brought back the comments.
Also, this movie will look like Kull the Conqueror II.
Sadly, it seems as though we will never see Robert E. Howard's Conan onscreen. So far we have seen John Milius' Conan, the freed orphan slave and crybaby who learns to be a samurai, basically, and it looks like next we will be getting Marcus Nispel's Conan the psychopath orphan avenger, who is written like Jason or Michael Myers trying to channel the killing urge into a cool fighting style. So sad. The character in Howard's stories is so vivid and magnetic. And not on some hackneyed, sword-and-sorcery 101 revenge quest. Hell, I'd settle for a Marvel comics version of Conan onscreen. Dark Horse, even better. I expect this to be more in line with that shitty PC game, style-wise.
Can't say I'm feeling this. And as someone who was a fan of Michael Clarke Duncan's Kingpin I must say in some cases ethnicity DOES matter. That dude does not look like a member of a northern European type tribe with which I would associate Conan.
Looking like an epic fail…
I hope I'm not a cocksucker.
I don't think you're a cocksucker.
By CROM, this film already sounds like a steaming pile.
Okay, I was okay with the casting of Conan. Wouldn't have been my choice, but not bad…but you can't pretend that Jason Mamoa is Mickey Rourke's kid…at all…that's retarded.
dammit, for a second I thought it was going to be Gary Busey
Stargate: "Whatever" is Atlantis, you jackfuck.
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