Conan Teaser Poster No2
After the first teaser poster for upcoming Lionsgate’s barbarian epic “Conan,” we’ve got today new one.
Conan teaser poster
Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain (Outlander) have been hired to redraft the script, the updated remake of sorts of 1982’s Conan The Barbarian.
The movie is a potential resurrection of the classic warrior created by Robert E. Howard, who has appeared in dozens of pulp stories published in the 1930s. In 1982, Oliver Stone and John Milius wrote a bloody adaptation, which Milius also directed, that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. [source: ToxicShock]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Spotted on the “Terminator Salvation” Set
Courtesy of Latino Review, a picture has surfaced from the set of McG’s “Terminator Salvation“, which shows Arnold Schwarzenegger (original T-800) on the set chatting with Christian Bale.
Source claims that Arnold was on set providing dialogue for the effects crew to work with, in order to seamlessly impose Schwarzenegger’s face into the film and onto Roland Kickinger’s torso.
“Terminator Salvation” is set for a summer 2009 release. Read the rest of this entry
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Conan Getting a Rewrite for Lionsgate
Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain have been hired to redraft the script for Lionsgate’s barbarian epic Conan, the updated remake of sorts of 1982’s Conan The Barbarian.
The movie is a potential resurrection of the classic warrior created by Robert E. Howard, who has appeared in dozens of pulp stories published in the 1930s. In 1982, Oliver Stone and John Milius wrote a bloody adaptation, which Milius also directed, that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After finishing a script titled Amazon about female warriors with Scarlett Johansson attached, the two were brought on to work on a Conan script separate from the original two writers Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. Now Lionsgate is anxious to get this into production right away and are trying to launch a franchise by making it a $100 million R-rated origin film. “We all want this movie to go into production as soon as possible. It’s a fast-tracked movie.”
Fredrik Malmberg, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and Avi Lerner will produce the film.
Malmberg told The Hollywood Reporter:
“We all want this movie to go into production as soon as possible. It’s a fast-tracked movie. Lionsgate felt the process was enhanced by having a second team come in and do a script.”
“Fans expect (these types of movies) to be more true to the source material. There’s no reason there couldn’t be a Conan movie every two years. He’s almost like Batman: He’s a dark hero. He’s a hard hero. He has to be badass, but we also have to like him.”
The film is being fast-tracked, but no production date has been set.
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Stallone talks Death Wish
I bought one of those talking ‘Rocky’ key-chains this week – you know, it says things like “Hey, I’m Rocky Balboa – the Italian Stallion’ – and the wife loves it…. About as much as she does hand-washing my ratty undies each week.
But I digress, the man behind the key-chain, Sly Stallone, has buried Rocky and will next…. Bury the fuckers that hurt his family. Yep, he’s stepping into Charles Bronson’s shoes for an unnecessary “Death Wish” remake.
On the eve of the “Rambo” release, the muscle man told our friends at IGN Movies a bit about that next film – and how it’ll differ from the original.
“I think Death Wish, if it were done today, would be volcanic,” Stallone said. “The idea of Jeff Goldblum being a mugger who breaks into an apartment is very simplistic. It gives you an idea how bad the elevation of violence has become. I would focus on defense attorneys, I would focus on [the people] allowing this crap to happen — not so much the guy on the street. It’s like, ‘Who permits it?’
“What if it happened to you, that your daughter was grabbed and her eyes were put out? Would you want to sit there and defend that guy?
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