He was the largest among the artists … let him rest in peace …

RIP

Totally bumming….

Thank you Frank. God bless you, rest in peace.

Thanks for everything Frank hope you have a flagon of ale at your elbow in Valhalla! May the Gods guard you.Hail and Farewell

Frank Frazetta. The name alone conjures up countless iconic images, from beautiful lush primordial landscapes to savage primeval battles so essential to heroic fantasy and sword and sorcery. Blessed with a vivid imagination he was an unparalled talent- a true master of his craft.Hail,Frank.

@ steve : I am curious to your thoughts on the Momoa pics…I’ve been ramblin about it yesterday.

yeah but how do you really feel:)?

sorry one more thing then off to work..any one read the article on frazetta with all of the comments by artists and actors and such? Though I am a huge fan of John Milius’s conan he made comment like ” though i could never put his(frazetta) work onscreen , when i made conan the goal was to mix frazetta and wagner.”Anyone notice how he left out Howard?

Ive gotta stop doing this ranting for its the only place other than youtube i do it.And ive closed 3 accounts there.
I need to calm myself otherwise i am heading for blood pressure tackle..lol

Wow I’m quite moved by your poetic approach Ian. And rant and rave away man, you have a God given right to.I understand the hostility, if the movie even remotely sembles those pics it will be conan by way of ed wood( at least the dialogue will be funny). They are candid cheap shots and a big sucker punch so to speak. I hope the guy who released them is thrown off set.( not the serpent god the movie set)Steve remember this is pre cgi , and im sure that roman gladiator thing on his arm(I admit it is kinda cheesy)wont be there the whole movie.And the carraige we see , how is it gonna be used ? as a cool backdrop silhouette or something else? How will they utilize lighting in the forest? you just can’t tell by those pics dudes.You know I’ll say it again but i must emphasize while I’m not gonna panic, I’m not impressed either. I’m not blown away, maybe I wanted to be but hey I will say this. I’ll compromise and say maybe I can make a better judgment on the path this film is going if they did 2 things: Release the same damn publicity stills patrick louinet saw .I say this because we all deserve better than these pics delivered and I want to see what he sees and made him say at the least Momoa resembles conan.2. Release the movie this winter. why the long wait? casino royale a far larger budget and it was released in the second half of 2006 while it was filmed 6 months earlier. Why the wait?

Ive decided.
If i had my way.I’d ditch this idiotic idea they have.Get rid and give us King Conan with Dwayne Johnson with the role as an aged Conan.He may of been Scorpion King buti don’t mind.
Rip him to Fuck and put a square cut mane on and the blue eyes,scar him up and let loose in a primitive world of sacrifices harlets and riches.
I always imagine Conan with somewhat primitive features but built thick and heavily strong like that of raggedy battle hardened panther with graceful moves too.
Not all agree but for me Johnson would be great as a age old Conan.
Put descent budget behind it.Give it what it deserves and blow everyone away as the candle burns for a saga now finished.
Ive read they want to take 2011 into 3 movies and not just one with the final being where he takes the throne of Aquilonia.
But i’d prefer the above in all honesty instead of 3 movies of Momoa.

I watched “Pathfinder” for the first time in 2 years last night and was impressed by how unremarkable it was for something that looked so great. I hope Marcus Nispel does give us something as visually arresting and that the actors attack their roles with as much violent enthusiasm. Their was 52 days on that shoot as opposed to “Conan”‘s 70 days. Hopefully Conan will come across a lot more coherent. My main gripe about “Pathfinder” was that it was too confusing on the eye with lots of fast paced close ups. The way it was shot may have had something to do with it too although I thought that filtered effect did have some merit. Lets hope Nispel can improve on what he did with that movie on “Conan”. As for Dwayne Johnson as King Conan…well, I always imagined him more along the lines of Lin Carter’s Thongor of Lemuria. Still I can’t really see Jason Momoa as the brooding king of Aquilonia either. Conan the pirate,yes,Conan the desert cheiftan,yes. Even Conan the pathfinding scout as in “Beyond the black river”.

I just went to the cimmerian.com and saw the newer conan pics.(thanks for the heads up steve.these pics are head and shoulders above anything else I’ve seen so far( not great but enough to get an idea of the flick not a stage hands cell camera taking quick one! I hate to say this but I really like what I see actually!sorry if I’m disagreed with, but I am actually impressed now. not saying that the movie will be good but he looks good for conan to me! As far as the movie, release the damn thing this winter! no need to hold off….but youknow this studio did do this with rambo….

Lets see how much post-production work needs doing. I think autumn 2011 has got to be an “at the very latest” figure surely? This thing could be out in the theatres by christmas. But I guess its all down to studio execs and knowing your audiences. Lets hope Nispel can use “Pathfinder” as an early draft or rough version from which to work on this much in the same way Howard did with his own stuff (lets face it he even rewrote some of his own Conan stories!).I’m still dubious but, hey, this is Conan after all…

No Fayric I think thats exactly the reason they will hold back.Thats marketing forces, knowing when best to release your product in order to generate the most interest. Bands have albums laying around sometimes for up to a year before the hapless wits at the record company decide now is the time to release it. As you say a lot of fantasy movies have been flooding the theatres of late so in order not to get lost in the deluge I guess they might want to hold back. I mean if released now do we believe “Conan” could go up against , say, “Prince of Persia” and come up trumps? Talking of music I’m listening to Bathory’s “Hammerheart” album. Epic Viking metal. Mead for all by Ymir!

YOu know I remember the studio taking it’s time releaseing rambo.( which i had a blast watching, i think that and quantum of solace were the last flicks i caught in theatres!) I saw those very violent teasers in june 2007, and the movie was not released in ny until feb 2008. so at the very least if they follow that plan we may see a trailer this sept or october?

Ian- Bathory are my all time favourite band. From “Under the sign of the black mark” through to “Destroyer of worlds”. You are right ,”Blood,Fire,Death” is a great album. I remember buying it the day it came out in the UK. I recomend it to Howard fans for the amazing opening track “A fine day to die”. The lyrics read like one of his finer poems (no lie!) and the music is as intense as it gets. Whats more amazing is that Bathory was the work of one man who went under the nom de nume of Quorthon. Unfortunately he passed away from heart failure in 2004. Though he kept an arms length distance in later years, he virtually single handedly started the Scandinavian black metal scene and the whole Viking metal scene popular today.He had a keen interest in sword and sorcery , classic mythology and is sorely missed.

yup. these are the latest pics we’ve been discussing on the other threads and here now. what do you think of them?

@serg: the hair really is a minor thing, it’s not that bad, but not what I expected.I was just hoping he wouldn’t look like sorbos kull, where the hair was so out of place it became a distraction to me. watch as kulls mop slays the demon witch of acheron!!!You know, as popular as sword and sorcery is stateside, I can’t think of too many bands that were popular here (popular not that they hail from here)that were influenced by it. I suppose iron maiden to a large extent really, and all the weird hobbit stuff influenced stuff from zep. I always liked “deaf forever” from motorheads orgasmatron and that song “out of the sun” off sacrifice, reminded me of the grim underbelly’s in some of Howards heroes, whether it was directly influenced by him or not.The black metal stuff you guys dig, though i knew a number of kids who were into it when I was a teen( even went to see some local bands withem when I was younger) isn’t as big here as it seems to be in europe and does not have as big an influence on what I perceive to be the fantasy crowd.( which is increasingly difficult to tell as I get older and watch more disney /pixar /dreamworks stuff with my kids rather than dawn of the dead (77 one of course)or monty pyhton and the holy grail.The little one likes jaws though…..

M I think by and large most metal bands try desperately to stay away from any fantasy imagery these days. Don’t forget Stateside you have Manowar-who are like a serious Spinal Tap and are enough to put any self respecting folk off fantasy and heavy metal for life. Bands who I personally think have made the two genres blend are-Celtic Frost, Bathory and Keen of the Crow. I forgot to mention England’s very own Howard/Lovecraft influenced band Bal-Sagoth. They are an acquired taste but I couldn’t resist buying their gorgeously titled; “A black moon broods over Lemuria” album a few months back.
Anyway back to “Conan”. I think his hair is a bit vidal sassoon myself. My girlfriend thinks she looks ok as Conan and she’s no fan, which I find interesting.Hey M, when you read Fleming how do you imagine Bond? Having not read him I wondered if there was an actual definitive character description like Howard with Conan.It seems to me Bond fans must have a damn sight of a harder time than we do!

Ray, I too love Tarzan (the books) and I see what you mean but I have the same dilemmas with the ape man on screen. I really like Neal Adams interpretation of him on the Ballantine book covers of the ’80s and of course Frank Frazetta’s Ace books covers of the ’60s which incidentally landed him the job on Lancer’s Conan series.Everyone it seems has conflicting opinions on Momoa as our Cimmerian beserker.Will he be a Connery or a Lazenby? Time will tell but its been 26 years since the last movie and its about bloody time we had another go. At least hes not a wrestler or another damn bodybuilder(no offence Ray,our movie is still on!)and for that we should at least be thankful. At least he has acting ability and has played this type of thing before. Still I am thinking they could have chosen Dave Mustaine from Megadeth.Him and Momoa are uncanilly alike in build looks and temperament. Go figure.

Hm, the whole viking thing has been a bit iffy for me. when I grew up, the only ones who liked to talk about vikings were neo-nazis and skin-heads. Its not until recent years Ive got past that mental block and realised norse myth is a real treassure of stories and imagination.

Anyway, talking about scandinavian metal; I work with a guy who “sing” and write the music in the band Sanctrum. Check them out if you got some spare time. (not as mody as you might like, but they make it up with energy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQXtBnHkVI

Steve, I keep thinking of Fields of the nephilim when I listen to your stuff. Any chanse thats an influence, or is it just my poor insight in metal that makes me turn to the gothic side? (and, hope that was not an insult;)

Sanctrum.Fast,hair wind milling,heavy stuff!Stand to close to that singer in full rage mode and he’ll melt your face off with a fiery furnace vocal blast!Cool stuff, reminds me of Goatwhore.Thanks Fayric.

btw the bond flicks id do feel are closer to fleming are these: dr no( though flemig hated it it does follow the plot) from russia with love, goldfinger ( it does stray quite a bit more than people realize.) thunderball( i think was an original script novelized by fleming, her majesty’s secret service, and the middle part of casino royale ( don’t let anyone fool you it strays a lot though it is a great flick). thats it.

I don’t understand why we are discussing Conan and Bond when the section is about the death of Frank Frazetta but any way here is my opinion of the Momoa photos.I would have liked him to have bigger arms yes,however the side shot of him scowling is very Conan I think.
If he bring a certain gravitas to the role then I can forgive the lack of bulk.I really dont think we can honestly judge the look of the movie until we see some official publicity shots and not just bad leaked pictures!
By the way I used to run the Official Manowar UK and European Fan Club THE ARMY OF IMMORTALS from 1990 to 1997!!

@simon conversations go where they do. i was asked and amswered, i wrote how i felt they(bond flicks and potential conan ones) related. many of us paid tribute to the man(frazetta) at the beginning of this thread and are now carrying conversations from other threads, some of us ( ian and myself ) agreed to it.What else can we say? the man was brilliant his children are spoiled little pigs( alot of pettiness going on over his 100mil!) and he will be missed.As it is i agree with mostly all you say on momoa, except i have not much a prob with his arms. that as mikehatesthiswhole thing said earlier six foot five is imposing and will make up for any muscle issues, i agree with him on that point.

Indeed (and heres a thought) I just read a review of Solomon Kane in which one critic laments the fact that too many fight scenes were filmed in fast motion close up leaving you wondering if they couldn’t be bothered with cheorography. I found this a problem in Nispel’s “Pathfinder” and remember Ray the dead barbarian’s comment that fight scenes were made up in between takes by the stuntmen. A good action movie NEEDS well thought out directed battle/fight scenes.If you have them you can almost forgive everything else. I think there is too much quick and easy lazy film making these days. Milius’ Conan may not appeal to everyone but there is no denying the power of the orgy battle scene and the battle of the mounds. From what I’ve seen of Momoa in clips on youtube he DOES get stuck in so lets just hope Nispel is working closely with his stunt crew and designing some good frame by frame fight scenes. To be honest though most of these IMPORTANT elements should have been visualised during the early writing/storyboarding stage.What do you think Ray?

Thanks Ray, I think some directors are better at filming fight scenes than others. I was really impressed the first time I saw “Braveheart” although I guess this will be more “comic book stylized”.Its intersesting to note the continuos change and approach to violence in movies: the sort of grim realistic edge which made the first Conan and “First blood” (both very similar movies come to think on it) has given way to a sort of over the top comic book madness thanks largely I suppose to the Waschowski brothers and too much CGI. Talking of which did someone mention they heard that there wasn’t going to be a lot of CGI on this? I hope not but it would be nice to have a ferocious ape beast or giant snake for Conan to deal with. Thats a sure fire winner for Howard and Frazetta fans.

Question on the milius film: I always believed that at the end f the flick when conan kills thulsa doom, he was preparing to have his followers burn themselves alive because whatever he had set out to do( I believed seducing the kings daughter was part of a power play extortion thing, and look at the things he was capable of making his followers do…kill their parents jump from cliffs…it’s ultimatley what cult leaders want is power, and he was a warlord) he failed in , his bodygaurds and trusted aides thorgrim and rexor ( were they vanir?) dead he had to clean house in that neck of the woods and regroup knowing conan may come for him now that he had no muscle)I also think he wasn’t gonna kill conan( though I’m likely wrong cause its too similar to the beginning with his mother) But I theorize he might’ve tried to recruit him. Conan’s will was his own at that point and the strength of his mind overcame the strength of steel and flesh.Once dooms followers saw their man god was flesh and bone, their minds became their own and said ” better go home and start dealing some black lotus, we’re broke!”that was always what I thought the end was about, but my question is, does anyone else think thulsa doom was presiding over a mass suicide sacrifice. I also believe he was of a race that was cannibalistic ( as the orgy scene implies) and would’ve eaten good bbq for a while. any thoughts, disagreements opinions on that?

Dio has been suffering from cancer, M, I know some people who will lament his passing ,if its true. As for Morrel’s “First blood” I read it in school- too many years ago to think about. You’re right about the ending.Stallone saw potential in the character and made what I thought was a pretty good film. I devoured the novelizaton of the second film too, which was also written by Morrel and given over to less soul searching and more blood and mayhem. Watching that movie now is torture but , like you , I really enjoyed “Rambo”. I think Stallone upped the ante on that movie knowing what the fans want and deliverd without the cartooniness of his last two efforts. Rambo is a modern day Conan, a character I’m damn sure Howard would have identified with. A battle harderned man born out of time with a healthy disregard for civilization and its hypocrisies.As for Thulsa Doom and his followers- well, he was a pre-human serpent man ensnaring followers and bending them too his will. Milius certainly based the cult on real life ones and done it chillingly well. Doom’s end speech too his followers,as passionate as it is, is a little vague. Was he planning world conquest or mass suicide? The latter seems more in keeping with actual realism. Conan’s beheading of Doom seems to break the spell. In the book of the film Doom turns into a serpent headed man just before Conan kills him. By showing them the head of a dead serpent man would have made more sense to show that the followers had been hypnotised en-masse by something evil and non-human. The cannibalistic scenes were left over from Oliver Stone’s original script and utilized by Milius to show the decadence of the cult and to show how base and numb his followers had become. They were in fact eating each other,I guess followers who failed to please.

First Blood was an awesome flick.I like the second and third ones to a point but they’re far too silly.the fourth flick is a big improvement and close to the first.and rambo does have characteristics that are in league with some of howards characters. As for the conan the barbarian,I never read the novelization scene( my buddy told me about it)but I always figured thulsa doom was gonna have them kill themselves because of what he was saying” this flame will burn away the darkness burn you away to paradise”Made me theorize about the rest of the stuff. He built up a small devoted willing to kill and die army,uding the cult of set as a front(cheaper than the mercenaries in the beginning of the flick he had)captured what i presume to be a powerful kings daughter(and his daughter was all osric cared about) .It just stinks of some demented ulterior motive cult leaders often have.and thulsa doom ,as old as he is rcognizes subversion is more effective than all out warfare.Crumble a society from within its own culture, gee I know I’ll use that old god set early man used to call my people.I’lluse the standard of my people as a symbol of religion amongst the young fools instead of waging all out war.sounds familiar right?Alas,Just a theory I’ve toyed with.And the theory about recruiting conan and the end is more for fun, ifigured conan killed his enforcers, this guy must be good so I’ll influence him( because his revenge motives are so primitive and barbaric,I’ll bend his emotionally driven will easily ,watch…uh oh)well didnt quite work out that way!

I figured doom knew he was screwed for now so lets clean house and start over.I’m 1000 years old and going strong,I’ve got nothing but time.As you said he was from a non human race,I’m sure he was the last if not one of the last of his breed and wanted to place a stake in human affairs(again very kull in theory)in this new thing these primitives have called civilization and be it’s ruler just as he(or his people) was in more ancient times.I think his breed could’ve been man eating in nature and having his followers eat their own species debases them and bends them to his will even more( just seals te deal so to speak,theyre his,throw some sex in there…)after being seduced initially with all the ideals, rebellion and nonsense cults use to “bring em in”.but I could see you’re point on lesser devotees being the courses, or political and religious targets.but this is what I like about Milius’s flick, i see something different every time and it’s so visual it leaves the viewer open to imagine whats going on under the surface.

You know I believe Howard was pointing in that direction ,I think Milius just went a little further down the road and attempted to answer “what makes civilizations rise and fall?” and” when and where does decadence start in a society and with whom?”can a civilized person save it or does it take an outlander (who like has been discussed )” is a random outside force that will plow his way through?”"Is that a good thing?”Thats why I remember we’ve both agreed ( i think) that in spirit and tone,this flick is closer to Howard than might be seen on the surface.I did see that about Connery.He would have been a solid pick he has a powerful voice.Jones has this exotic thing that makes him almost alien like in presence that I don’t know if connery could’ve pulled off,but I’ll say this. try to find pics of connery in his bodybuiding days.Havn’t seen many but theyre out there.He has a dark brooding face and with a bit of weight to his ripped physique…. well you’ll get the idea.

When it comes to great Conan pictures on the covers of Heavy Metal albums, then Off course do not forget to mention Manilla Road: Spiral Castle, Gates of fire and Skullview: Legends of Valor.

Oh yeah nearly forgot! I have seen those early Mr.Scotland pics of Connery and, yeah, he could have eaten Momoa for breakfast before he even had a chance to pull on his Calvin Klein undies! I remember seeing him in “The Rock” (the movie) with that long grey hair at the start and thinking he would make a great King Conan if they ever made “Conan of the Isles” or something similar. Charles Bronson maybe as Genghis Khan- I think his features too Mongol for a western barbarian. I thought that Jason Scott Lee would have made a good Brule,the spear-slayer from the Kull stories.

Hi Steve, Yes Manilla Road used also Elric, but I mentioned two albums of the new era (Spiral Castle 2002, Gates of Fire 2005). Especially the Gates of fire is made of 3 trilogies (means three time three songs) and the album starts with three songs that are telling the tale of Conan and Frost giant’s daughter. On the cover art look at the upper right triangle.

By the way out of topic for all the metalheads on this blog – Ronnie James Dio passed away, so I drink a toast on him as well.

You know to steve ( and everyone else ) Milius changed all the details to suit his story, I know it can be annoying to those expecting lets say Venarium ( and my argument is that story was never specifically told by howard nor was cimmeria ever seen, at least to my memory of his work. if you want any flick to be true to howard to the letter, do you really want to see that stuff, as cool as it may be?ideally for me I dont care to see any of conans youth i would love to see him full grown and there ,as he was originally imagined akin to the way ledgers joker was portrayed without definite orgins, give some mystery to the guy.but there are those who need things mapped out for them and thats fine too)but it does serve a point to his story and he makes it cohesive. I can sum it up and make it brief( I know guys I ramble too much but when I have a thought I have to run with it )by saying this: Conan the Barbarian to me in a way is the low fantasy/sword and sorcery version of 2001 in respect that if you look at it you can always see something new ( its so visual and a pics worth a thousand words)in it at any viewing you didnt notice before and it reveals itself as you get older. It was a cool bloody sex filled adventure with a grim hero when I was 15 now i see more( as ive stated in above posts)Its biggest flaw ( aside some acting issues and it is dated) is it isnt LITERALLY true to Howard, but in spirit and ideas I believe it is.

Since there is supposedly a minimum of CGI on this movie does Mr.Lang measn by comparing “Conan” to “Jason and the Argonauts” and “The seventh voyage of Sinbad” that it will be full of forgetable bland characters and unconvincing studio scenery.The mind boggles…

I have to admit though, I did get a kick out of the movies as a boy.I liked all of that stop motion stuff.

hey um didn’t i just write that word for word about 2 or 3 posts ago bruce?wtf?

Actually I think what Steve Lang meant when comparing “Conan” to those Scheer/Harryhausen flicks was the tired old retreaded plots rehashed,remade and marketed as something new…maybe.But yeah, lets have some damn stop motion!!! Before this decade is out my moneys on a revival of all those old fashioned filming techniques. The movie industry needs a revolution!

Got cut off in mid-sentence there!… I think Momoa will be capable of growling out some good lines though from what I’ve heard and seen of him.

Fom when I first started reading this blog to writing on it to now, there are alot less things that bother me about it than from the start. this is what still bothers me 1) Marcus Nispel, he just bothers me and I can’t say I’ve enjoyed his work other than friday the 13th which is not something to be taken seriously. 2) the premise of the flick, and as you know i’ve stated in the past i’m tired of origin/revenge flicks andI was kinda hoping ,for this that conan would be fully formed and fleshed out as he appeared in REH’s head. I can get past it if it’s done well, Conan had revenge as a motive too many times to count so it can be done.

Stop motion still has it! just look at “call of cthulhu”. I think Avatar and Gollum CG dont come close to the real thing, In my eyes its still kind of flat, even if I can enjoy it as I can enjoy magic and laser blasters thoug I know they are not real. I can still find a great childish joy from Jim Hensons marvelous creature shop and Harryhausens animated puppets. Real masks and settings do the little exta that make movies like Nightmare before christmas a work of love and genius. A marvel I dont much feel with modern effects. Jep, sure hope Steve Lang was talking about stop motion;)

Anyway, I was thinking about how to make a conan movie. The problen seems to be that Conan is actually a “tall tale” hero, with marvelous attributes fit to win the day in any story, making him quite impossible to portray by any mortal man (because he is an Ideal with many contradictory descritions. And Im not just talking about Conans physiqe, but his other talents as well.)
I think m has brought up the notion of understanding the descriptions of Conan as, not the way he really is, but the way people percieve him. I think this is an interresting perception, becasue the stories are often written out of either the perspective of one of Conans companions or from a neutral narrator.
Now, the only way to portray Conan is to make him more as an bi character, and tell the story out of other peoples tales. Of course this would not make Conan absent for much of the movie, but rather a puzzling character unlike any other person in the movie. A grunting laughing independant man of action that you dont get to know much closer than what he says or do. In my oppinion this Is the way howard wrote him, not as a great hero with a cronological origin story and psycological explanations. Just a man who defines himself by his actions, looked upon by an amazed companion who can not exactly pin point what to make of that outlandish barbarian.
I once thought that they could use different actors depending on what kind of character was “telling” the story, but I think that would be a bit to modern for a yarn that should be timeless and classical (in an od gritty way of high fantasy and low adventure).
Just pondering.

More Barbarians for the big screen: Robert Rodriguez, who was once considered to direct the new Conan and/or Red Sonja movie, told Ain’t It Cool News that he has acquired the rights for Ralph Bakshi and the late Frank Frazetta’s 1983 animated feature Fire and Ice. The new live-action version of the film has been set up at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45169
http://www.ralphbakshi.com/films.php?film=fireandice

Has anyone gone on thecimmerian recently? I’m reading that robert rodriguez has bought the rights to Frazettas Fire and Ice and when you go to the ain’t it cool site, it kinda implies( not outright says) he may be working with bakshi on some sort of live action sin city/300 version of it, as the last question he is asked is, who will play teegra?

I think Frazetta will be interesting a lot of film producers now. I can forsee a Death Dealer movie on the horizon in the not to distant future. But…hands off “Fire and Ice”,or is nothing sacred? My vote is STILL for a Robert Rodriguez directed “Queen of the black coast” with Salma Hayek as Belit.

by the way I meant link not lonk. what is a lonk anyway?

Has anyone seen Spartacus:Blood and sand? Just seen an advertisement for it and I must say for a tv show it looks damn impressive. A friend of mine was talking about it the other day saying it was my sort of thing because it reminded him of Conan the barbarian.

my buddy from work mentioned spartacus as favorite show of all time and he hates whats on tv. i’m gonna have to check it out on demand.Warrior , what are the flowers for? for a gurrrl!

Crom laughs at your four winds!

Great idea to make a genghis khan movie. Mickey Rourke as genghis khan though, that is like momoa as conan. I guess genghis khan will speak english too. They just need to make a series of movies that focuses on the Joker, and mickey rourke can play that part every year.

I just downloaded spartacus, I will watch it after lost.

maybe some weird motif?

Milius is Doing Genghis Khan????!!!!! F@%k NO!!!!!!
Why not austrian guy…damn…Vladimir Jan will raise from ashes and swallow this world after movies release

“Have you ever felt such a wind,Subotai…” M. That scene should have made the original cut.Its actually one of the strongest acting scenes featuring Arnie. It also shows the strong bond between Conan and Subotai when he gives the Hyrkanian leave to go. Subotai’s grimly humourous reply nails Howard’s own somber philosophy perfectly. As for the wind motif, my UK dvd copy doesn’t have a “Break like the wind” featurette- which is probabley unfortunate. Actually that sounds like a Manowar concapt album title.
Got to admit “Spartacus:Blood and sand” intrigues me even if it is “300″ with the “Gladiator” storyline tacked on. If they did “Conan” similar to this…well, lets hope this doesn’t trample all over Nispel’s movie with bloodied sandalled feet.

Nespiss, shit Im stuck for words, what wank has this bloke produced??
If you aint gonna do it justice leave it the F*ck alone. Momoa ??? WTF???? He aint no Conan, this looks like Mel Brooks version. Frank Frazetta should have been asked to be on the casting couch before the poor bugger croaked. Conan aint no pretty boy. He had the women damp cause he was a sodden great bloke who had an aura about him (spell check) that dripped savagery and power. He was ripped scarred dirty firery explosive and volatile even slightly unhinged. 6 billion people on the planet and they choose Mammery gland momoa??? Tit!!!