Arnold Schwarzenegger Returning For The Legend of Conan

[Thundarr]

Yeah I don't think this movie is going to happen anymore.

You think a studio is going to sink another $200 million into a senior Arnold vanity project?

When push came to shove, Paramount opted to reboot Terminator instead of doing another sequel with Arnold.

$200 million? Probably not. That doesn't mean they won't invest $50 million for the project. The first movie only cost $16 million. Of course, Arnold wasn't as big of a star back then (it being his first major film and all), and inflation has gone up quite a bit since 1982 (I can remember when a copy of WWF Wrestling Magazine only cost $3, today it's called WWE and costs $12).

And don't forget, the first movie was totally epic. Even if it wasn't 100% true to the canon of the original stories, it still had an amazing feel to it. One that all attempts since have failed to capture. Destroyer and the 2011 snoozer may have had much larger budgets, but they failed to recapture that epic feelz. Hopefully someone at Paramount will understand that just throwing money at a project won't necessarily make it a better movie. That's something no one seems to understand anymore.

 

[Octoberist]

If they were make another Conan it would be at a modest budget. Considering that Arnold doesn't hold the star power he had before, I can see Universal green lighting something at 80 million with a PG-13 rating.

 

[TheVileOne]

The 2011 movie had a budget of $90 million. Something with Arnold would cost a lot more. Marketing would also be expensive.

 

[dude stannis]

The 2011 one was done by Millenium Films, their budgets are never actually the published ones.

 

[Octoberist]

Millenium Films are the worst. Them and Screen Gems are indicators of B-Level poo.

 

[dude stannis]

Eh, Millenium have their occasional wins. If only they'd stop using that awful effects company, or at least give them time to improve them.

 

[TheVileOne]

My point is this. Universal doesn't seem so keen to do this right now. And I'd say Arnold's last two movies are indicative of that.

They've got other franchises they can focus on than an Arnold Schwarzenegger vanity project that only a handful of people probably want to see.

Paramount already moved on and they are rebooting Terminator without him.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yes, you seem persistent in stressing that you loathe this project and don't want it to happen. Repeating it won't make anyone give a **** any more or less.

 

[dude stannis]

No, repeating definitely makes everyone give even less of a ****. Arnold last film cleaned up overseas by the way.

 

[TheVileOne]

No, repeating definitely makes everyone give even less of a ****. Arnold last film cleaned up overseas by the way.

Yes, sure did clean up with less than $80 million overseas.

 

[gwynplaine]

Jason Momoa was a better Conan than Arnold, too bad the movie he was in really sucked t:

 

[dude stannis]

Yes, sure did clean up with less than $80 million overseas.

Yep, as of last week and gonna break $100 million.

You know, if you hate Schwarzenegger so much, have you ever thought of not talking about him?

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't hate Schwarzenegger at all. I'm just saying, when is this movie happening? Interest in this project seems to have run dry.

 

[Bruce Malone]

No, repeating definitely makes everyone give even less of a ****. Arnold last film cleaned up overseas by the way.

The foreign market is so random. Escape Plan does near 80m overseas but the Last Stand which by all accounts was a better movie, couldn't muster much more than 33 million os?

 

[dude stannis]

Well, Last Stand's plot was something you could find on VOD starring Steve Austin really, nobody bothered to advertise Forrest Whitaker was in the film (I'd argue he has more credibility with general audiences than Stallone at this point) and Kim Jee Woon isn't a household name (yet). Escape Plan had the superman prison hook which isn't something you see every day.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Jason Momoa was a better Conan than Arnold, too bad the movie he was in really sucked t:

In your wet dream maybe.

Well, by the time King Conan is made ( if ) Arnold will play the corpse of the dead King...

 

[Octoberist]

Long live Arnold. Long live the King.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Momoa was more accurate to the Robert E Howard character, but everything around him, the writing, direction, it was just utter blandness. Whereas Arnold's iteration wasn't really that faithful to the source material, but was pretty epic as it's own thing.

I've always used the Bond comparison; Momoa was Timothy Dalton and Arnold was Sean Connery.

Though we desperately need a bloody Daniel Craig iteration of the character.

 

[gwynplaine]

In your wet dream maybe.

Well, by the time King Conan is made ( if ) Arnold will play the corpse of the dead King...

si c pour dire des conneries ou être désagréable comme toujours essaie d éviter d adresser mes posts, je suis sur que tu peux le faire. Je n ai pas besoin de ta négativité ou de ta grossierete.

 

[gwynplaine]

Momoa was more accurate to the Robert E Howard character, but everything around him, the writing, direction, it was just utter blandness. Whereas Arnold's iteration wasn't really that faithful to the source material, but was pretty epic as it's own thing.

I've always used the Bond comparison; Momoa was Timothy Dalton and Arnold was Sean Connery.

Though we desperately need a bloody Daniel Craig iteration of the character.

Yeah, like I said before unfortunately the movie he was in really sucked, but at least Momoa looked like a Buscema drawing.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I'd rather have someone play Conan that actually has the ability to act.

 

[gwynplaine]

I thought he was ok in GOT, not a terrible actor imo, but I see what you mean. Anyway, Conan is tough to cast. Arnold wasn't that great an actor either when he started but in the hands of a really good director like Milius he pulled it off. Sometimes a great director can also make a big difference. Anyway I'm not really rooting for anyone, I just want to see a good Conan film that feels like a Howard book and looks like a John Buscema comic, hopefully some day.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

si c pour dire des conneries ou être désagréable comme toujours essaie d éviter d adresser mes posts, je suis sur que tu peux le faire. Je n ai pas besoin de ta négativité ou de ta grossierete.

Quoi c'est just une vanne à deux balles, il ne faut pas prendre ca de travers....
Désolé si je t'ai offensé, ce n'était pas mon but.

PS : et d'où vient ce "comme toujours, négativité et grossiereté" ?? Si j'étais grossier j'aurai deja eu un avertissement.

PS2 : j'aurai du écrire wildest dream certes mais sur le coup c'est "wet dream" qui est sortie.

 

[gwynplaine]

Quoi c'est just une vanne à deux balles, il ne faut pas prendre ca de travers....
Désolé si je t'ai offensé, ce n'était pas mon but.

PS : et d'où vient ce "comme toujours, négativité et grossiereté" ?? Si j'étais grossier j'aurai deja eu un avertissement.

PS2 : j'aurai du écrire wildest dream certes mais sur le coup c'est "wet dream" qui est sortie.

oui, je ne sais ps quel est ton niveau d'anglais mais effectivement tres mauvais choix de mot. On avait eu deja un accrochage dans le passe ou tu t etais deja excuse. Je ne viens pas sur le hype pour me faire insulter et quand je tombe sur un poster trop agressif ou qui manque de manieres, je sors de mes gonds, car moi meme j essaie toujours de rester poli, positif et si possible constructif par egard envers les autres hypers. En ts cas, ton deuxieme post etait plus civil donc restons en la.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, like I said before unfortunately the movie he was in really sucked, but at least Momoa looked like a Buscema drawing.

I thought he looked good for the part, but he was just so overwhelmingly dull in the role. His Conan had no personality. Granted, I guess you could chalk that up to bad writing and direction, but I also found Momoa's acting to be very wooden. And that surprised me because he was awesome on GoT. But then I have to remember that all his dialogue on that show was in a made-up language and had it not been, then perhaps his limitations as an actor would have been more apparent.