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Blackman and McCain are going to write the screenplay for the second Conan movie!

Dirk Blackman just wrote on his private Outlander blog, that himself and Howard McCain never got a chance to write the screenplay for Conan ONE. But instead they were asked to write a sequel to the movie based on the screenplay by Oppenheimer/Donelly! This is strange news, as the recently leaked Oppenheimer/Donelly script is miles, yards, aeons far away from anything that Howard ever wrote, be it style, storyline, character, motivation or world-canon.

If the script that was leaked to Latinoreview really is going to be the screenplay for the new Conan movie and Blackman and McCain cannot save us from this, then i really lost all my hope for any chance of success for this movie or it’s sequel. If you start a new line of Conan movies in the way Latinoreview described it, then no sequel can repair the damage done in the first one. All Cimmerians wiped out by Werewolves, Conan on an epic revenge plot against an evil wizard… that is plain and pure generic bull-dung.

The only chance i am seeing is that the first movie will be utter trash, due to an horrible screenplay and the second one will be another reboot of the story, with a proper screenplay, that does not spit on Howard’s stories and characters.

Seriously… i am at loss for words and i am deeply disappointed with Paradox and Millenium Films if that turns out to be true.

UPDATE: Dax posted in the Outerlanderblog comments that another guy reviewed the script of O/D. While his review sounds much more optimistic, the general basic errors made to the Conan character, that Latinoreview mentioned still remain and the fact that the general story still seems uninteresting is very underwhelming, because i think Howard was a natural storyteller, with a great ability not only to tell stories in a great way, but also tell great stories.

UPDATE 2: Blackman just confirmed on his private blog, that the review i posted in the first Update of this post is really the one Brett fell in love with and therefore the one they will for now go with.

Well… basing a movie, a start of a new franchise, on a script that cries cheap-generic story, to bring back to live a franchise that Robert E. Howard invented, maybe the most illogical and strange decsision i expected and i have no high hopes, that anything good will come out of the screenplay/project that is shunned by directors… for obvious reasons.

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8 Responses to “Blackman and McCain are going to write the screenplay for the second Conan movie!”

  1. Not again
    At 28. May 2009 20:01 o'clock

    Please, let it not be the second Destroyer.

  2. James McKenzie
    At 29. May 2009 04:36 o'clock

    It seems strange that a second moviescript is being written when the first movie doesn’t have a director. It is too bad but it seems that the good directors seemed to be snubbing there noses at this project when it has the potential to be such a great movie.
    Second Destroyer or even worse; Kull the Conqueror with a cheesy rock soundtrack.

  3. Waldgeist
    At 29. May 2009 07:04 o'clock

    Haha.. you know what, i just recently got my hands on the Kull DVD and i think its a better movie than Destroyer, just the rock-music ruined it for me… the same goes for Scorpion King. If those two movies would take themselves just a bit more seriously, then they would be at least entertaining and not have this extreme cheezy stench to them.

  4. Gulbrand
    At 29. May 2009 08:29 o'clock

    Well, your quotation of Blackman isn’t entirely correct, Waldgeist. You write:

    “Blackman just confirmed on his private blog, that the review i posted in the first Update of this post is really the one Brett fell in love with and therefore the one, they will go with for the new movie.”

    Blackman’s own words are:

    “..that is the script Brett fell in love with and as of now is the one they are going with.”

    “As of now” being the operative word here. You probably did not mean to put it any other way, I just feel like the article can come off as Blackman saying they are definitely going for the O/D script, which is not the case.

    I would think that whether or not Ratner liked the script will be of very little importance now that he is officially off the project. After all, what the new director thinks should be the important thing, right?

  5. derFeef
    At 29. May 2009 12:33 o'clock

    Oh, what is missing is a bad “Hollywood” director and there goes my hopes for a good Conan movie.

    And also – Outlander screenwriter? Who knows, with a better director it could have been much more than a snoozefest.

  6. Waldgeist
    At 29. May 2009 13:25 o'clock

    @Gulbrand
    That is true.. but sadly.. lets be honest, in the history of moviemaking when did a Director come to a fast-pace project and says “well trash your script i don’t like it make a new one” and that happened? :(

    Especially since Paradox/Millenium are searching for a director that does THEIR script without too many creative input.

  7. Gulbrand
    At 29. May 2009 17:10 o'clock

    @Waldgeist

    Yeah, I just wanted to point out that “all is not lost”, or something like that.

    Blackman has posted some very interesting replies on the blog now, detailing how and when this shift from Conan 1 to 2 took place, and some great info on how they envision the character. It really is a pity he and McC didn’t get to finish their first script..

  8. Kike
    At 29. May 2009 18:43 o'clock

    I really NEED a good CONAN movie… Please, make a good CONAN movie.

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