Archive for the ‘Conan’ Category
Conan makes an appearance in the Art Appreciation Moment of the Day, with a piece by Carlo Pagulayan. I’m digging the fine detail of this drawing that he used as a tryout for the redesign of the current Dark Horse Comics Conan series.
At the con, Dark Horse announced a bunch of new projects that the company promises is the next evolution of the comics medium. Oddly, only one announcement (made yesterday) features anything to do with electronics.
Running down the list, I see one that Rodrigo will like in the form of Age of Reptiles. Even though IDW Announced its Archie hardcover collections, it looks like Dark Horse is also going to be offering one up. I’ll have to follow up on this one. There’s also a new One-Shot program coming out of DHC, with the mighty Conan getting featured in the first one. Also featured will be Hellboy, Goon, and Dr. Horrible.
Finally, Final Fantasy fans will feel fantastic over the phenomenal Final Fantasy Boxed Set.
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Diving into convention sketches this week, and today we’re offering up Conan by Joe Jusko. Feels a lot like Joe Kubert.
This all sounds very familiar. When the original Conan movie was in the works, the production company hired and Austrian body builder to swing the sword and bring order to the Hyborian Age. For the remake Nu Image/Millenium and Lionsgate have repeated the formula by picking up 41-year old Roland Kickinger to play Conan.
Conan begins shooting in the fall.
Marcus Nispel has been set as the director for the new Conan movie being developed by Nu Image/Millenium Films, according to Variety. Nu Image/Millenium Films is teaming with Paradox, the company that holds the rights to Robert E. Howard’s creations to make the movie a reality.
Paradox originally set the project at Warner Bros. but declined to ink a new rights deal after numerous unsuccessful attempts to make it with directors like Larry and Andy Wachowski and Robert Rodriguez. Malmberg then set it with Lerner in a seven-figure deal with strong progress to production stipulations. Lerner flirted with Brett Ratner last year, but the filmmaker could not commit in a timely fashion and Lerner couldn’t wait.
Nispel was the director for the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massecre and Friday the 13th.
Dark Horse Comics sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles arriving in July 2009. Take the jump to see what’s ahead for Buffy, Conan, and the new Alien series.
Boy howdy, that Cimmerian sure knows how to pick ‘em
From the lands to the north, Conan has traveled seeking his fortune by hiring himself out to those armies he feels are worthy of his talents. In the land of Koth, protected by the ancient god Mitra, Conan finds his new employer in the form of Amalric the Lion, leader of a group of mercenaries, sent by the king to fend off armies who would claim the region as their own.
Have fun storming the castle!
By Crom! The final installment of the first arc in the newly launched Conan the Cimmerian series from Dark Horse Comics has arrived! All those flashbacks, featuring Conan’s grandfather, readers have been reading since May 2008 finally play out as readers discover how hungry, lonely, and fearsome the wolf can be.
Nothing can stop the mighty juggernaut that is World of Warcraft! Funcom, the creators of the Age of Conan MMORPG have announced it is closing 60% of the games servers around the world.
The reduction is more dramatic in North America and the Oceanic regions, where 24 servers are being merged into just six. In the US, only one player-versus-player server and two player-versus-environment servers will remain, with each combining the populations of six or seven existing servers.
In Europe, 12 servers will remain, due to the need to provide a variety of server types in each of four languages. English-language European servers are being cut from 13 to four.
Funcom has another MMO releasing next year, so for now Age of Conan is the company’s only source of income, so it is unlikely the game will shut down completely. Guess that tie-in to CBS’s Big Bang Theory did nothing for the game.
Perhaps Crom has something more in store for you, Conan
Conan’s adventures have taken him to far away lands, where he has beheaded many enemies, bedded many ladies, and beheld many a site. Now his travels are taking him back home, and while homecomings can be a good thing, for Conan, it’s sure to bring more trouble for the once and future king.
For those of you hating the announcement that Brett Ratner was in as the director of the Conan movie can breathe a small sigh of relief today. The director says the deal is not done, as there are a few more things that need to be hammered out. Still up in the air are the budget, special effects, and shooting location, which places Conan back in development hell instead of an in production feature.
In the meantime, Ratner is committed to making Beverly Hills Cop 4 before taking on Conan.
Let that last line sink in for a moment before you start commenting. Beverly Hill Cop… 4.
The remake of Conan was announced last summer, and now Brett Ratner is in final negotiations to direct the feature.
Ratner jibed to the “Conan” script by Gersh-repped Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly, who looked to Robert E. Howard’s original pulp stories of the 1930s to create their take on the character. The writers are doing a quick polish to incorporate some of Ratner’s ideas, with an eye toward releasing the film in 2010.
Since this is diving into the source material, Lionsgate is expecting an R rating for the feature, and is shelling out $85 million for the budget.
Gotta squeeze this one in, just to upset those of you who think politics and comics shouldn’t mix. It’s all in good fun.
It’s just a bit of fun, really, but I get a real kick out of imagining what a Conan/Swamp Thing administration would be like. I figure national security wouldn’t be a problem (who’d wanna mess with an axe wielding barbarian?) and environmental issues would definitely take center stage. Hell, even the current financial mess in the US would probably benefit — you could imagine President Conan meeting with Wall Street heads and scowling, “Crom! You’re all thieves! You should all be strung up by your fat necks!“.
And if your are interested in politics in comics, you should really check out our recent Major Spoilers podcast where we discussed these issues in depth.
Check out the teaser poster to the upcoming Lionsgate Conan movie.
This time out, we got crises, we got kudos, we got barbarians, we got chainmail bikinis, and while Stephen and Matthew flashback to 1985, Rodrigo nods and thinks about larping… We got a little love for the alien penis beast (and really, who needs more love than the alien penis beast?) we got a little love for the floppy pamphlet (which actually sounds dirtier than alien penis beast) but most of all, we got a little love for Uncle Barry, Cousin Kara, and even the late, lamented Ten-Eyed Man. Strap on your rocket pack, straighten your cape, and prepare yourself for a new post-Crisis reality, where Matthew’s only one-tenth as strong, but Stephen’s cape is twice as long, and for some reason, Rodrigo has a hook for a hand, the Major Spoilers podcast is on the air!
You asked for it! You Demanded it! AND NOW YOU’RE GETTING IT! THE FIRST TWO HOUR PODCAST! A giant-sized anniversary podcast special epic event thing!
Show Notes after the Jump!
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