Jason Momoa & Rachel Nicols, both looking just cute as buttons, as snapped by JoBlo.com

Some more Comic-Con sightings and reports today. First is an 18 minute roundtable interview with Ramascreen, featuring Jason Momoa and Rachel Nichols, which can be heard here:

Special thanks to Lionsgate, at Comic-Con 2011, a few press members and I were lucky enough to chat with Jason Momoa (HBO’s Game Of Thrones) and the sexy Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra) about their new movie, CONAN THE BARBARIAN reboot. By the way, Momoa was even more massive in person than he was on screen. That dude entered the interview room while eating heavy sandwich.
I got to ask them about their experiences filming in Bulgaria and about Marcus Nispel‘s directing style.

For more snippets and segments, click after the break.

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This has been mentioned in other interviews, but I figure it deserves its own post: according to none other than Jason Momoa himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoyed the new Conan film, he thinks Jason did a good job, and he’s proud of him.

“I was excited to find out that he actually watched it and liked it a lot,” Jason Momoa tells NextMovie of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reaction. “He was proud of me and thought I did a good job.”

So, it’s official: Arnold Schwarzenegger approves of Jason Momoa. The 1982 Conan thinks the 2011 Conan did well. If anyone still has a problem with Jason stepping into Arnold’s shoes*, then who are you to argue with the Governator himself?

*not that he is really stepping into Arnold’s shoes at all, what with this NOT BEING A BLASTED REMAKE WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL SAYING THAT AWAY WITH YOU MEN IN WHITE COATS THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW

Even though Lionsgate and the gang aren’t presenting Conan the Barbarian at Comic-Con, the major cast members were on hand to promote the film. First is this interview Jason Momoa did with with the Vancouver Sun:

SAN DIEGO — At a pop culture convention brimming with superheroes and superpowers, Conan stands alone. No mutant healing factor or radioactive spider bites required: Conan the Barbarian is a hero who has never needed anything more than his wits and a trusty broadsword.

First introduced by pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 and brought to life in the 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan is about get a big-screen reincarnation in the form of the Hawaiian-born Jason Momoa.

Momoa is one of the biggest stars of this year’s annual ComicCon, and he owes it all to embracing his inner savage. Momoa was a highly-anticipated presence on HBO’s panel for Game of Thrones, the acclaimed series in which he played the primal warrior king Khal Drogo. His work on Thrones has paved the way for audiences to accept him as the ultimate barbarian, Conan of Cimmeria.

“Oh, they hate me,” he said of Conan fans’ initial reaction to his casting. “Everyone’s like, ‘Who? Baywatch? Stargate?’ It’s like, ‘I can do more than that.’

“Once Game of Thrones came out, people were like ‘holy sh—’, Conan is going to be badass,” Momoa said in an interview at ComicCon. “After seeing Drogo, they were like ‘all right, this guy can do it.’”

For more, including videos and other bits & pieces, click after the break.

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Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.Net has a lengthy 8-minute interview. Discussions ofThte differences between Khal Drogo and Conan, as well as the 1982 film’s Conan and the upcoming iteration, Conan’s origins, his personality, the extent of blood & gore, Stephen Lang and Khalar Zym, the relative lack of CGI, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols, what he’d like first-time viewers to take from the film, the 3D, and Marvel crossovers come up:

The Movies On Demand Panel has an interview too:

Finally, Time Warner Cable has a short minute-long chat:

Youtube has three videos of Jason Momoa’s recent adventures. The first is an interview with PublimetroMEX, which has Jason talking about the film. I’d do a transcript, but I’m having a blasted difficult time hearing him through the translator talking over him. Hopefully others will have more luck.

For some more bits and pieces from Comic-Con, join us after the break!

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In the wake of the recent reveal of the “Egg Race” sequence, a few new links and snippets have popped up. Plus two quirky photos of Jason’s photo call in Madrid!

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After all these TV spots, we have our first clip from the film released!

I’ll be back later with an analysis (aye, aye, you’ve heard THAT before), but suffice to say, there are things I like in this clip, and thinks I don’t like. Really like, and really don’t like.

EDIT: Before I post my opinions, I’ve composed an overview and description of what happens in the clip, which you can view by clicking onwards.

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Who would’ve thought there could be 30 stills’ worth of new information in a 30-second Facebook trailer? Or that a trailer for a 15-rated film could have an 18-rated trailer? Not me, that’s for sure.

Warning: SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS will follow, as well as veritable buckets of blood and various body parts flying about, and most horrifically of all, at least one shot of (gasp) a lady’s chest. Ach, help ma boab!

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Seemed an appropriate teaser image, methinks. Anyway, this trailer happens to show a few shots from the climax of the film, so you might want to be wary of SPOILERS.

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A bearded patron of the Greenock Waterfront Cinema is anxious to know how it all turns out…

After much ado, here’s the analysis of the UK trailer. The reason it had been taking so long as fairly simple: I couldn’t find a decent high-resolution copy of the trailer. However, as the days passed on, I figured it would be better to just use what we have, since the quality’s decent enough that we can tell what’s going on.

There’s going to come a point where these just become redundant. Until then, let’s have a dive in.

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