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Yes, please someone needs to go there and ask Momoa and Nispel the following questions:

-”Conan is a loner, a womanizer, a mercenary, a thief, an anti-hero whose heroic deeds served his own selfish needs more than any sense of honor or duty. Previous attempts made to sweeten Conan and make him more social and likeable, as well as politically correct, disfigured the character, some beyond recognition. How are you going to address this?”

-”Conan is grim and taciturn as you’d expect a barbarian to be. But he is also a skilled tactician, a smart warrior and he has a dark sense of humor. Those aspects of his personality were partially or fully neglected in past adaptations. How does this one compare?”

If only they could answer those in a reassuring way, consider me sold for now.

(by the way, that was an attempt at irony).

Waldgeist, are you going there with some age of conan people (or just for fun?) You got nispel to anwser some of our questions once, perhaps this could lead to you getting Momoa to tell us his understanding of the character he is playing?

May I remind you that Arnie recommended the bodybuilder champion Ralf Moeller for the infamous TV series and we all know how that went.

Ian, I’ll agree Arnie and Christopher Reeve made their characters iconic and are hard to replace. Linda Carter was a woman with that kind of natural beauty that is becoming really rare in Hollywood, in the age of surgery. They get to make such claims.

But Adam West certainly doesn’t! Christian Bale would scrub the floor with him any day of the week. Heck, even Michael Keaton would. The campiness made that show a success, not the actors.

I was thinking Dan Abnet would probably do a great job. He has mostly written Novels for the warhammer game world, and mostly to the futuristic version. I guess writing for a miniature wargame that has become computer games and RPGs is not a good foundation for credibility, but the way I see it, its not unlike what Howard did with the pulp era. Also Abnet is getting much praise and appreciation despite his rather small sub genre. Old var veterans is writing to him asking where he served, but poor dan have to admit he never was in the army (hes just a really good writer that can enter the world he writes about as if he was there himself. Yhe kind of writer that dont just write about people and situations, but really bring them to life. (and ofcourse the warhammer world is a mix of cliches and broad cultural influence, much like howard fasioned his stories.