If the long-rumoured third film about Conan as a king was ever to be made, how many people would be interested in watching it?
I enjoyed the first film, the second was a mash-up of several stories that ruined a major villain and while I didn't find it terrible it has never quite lived up to the first one. I have mixed feeling about how I'd feel about a third film should it ever be made.
I'd watch it. I like Ahnold.
I'd watch it at least once. Love an Ahnold Conan movie.
I'd wait to read the reviews and recommendations and check it out if they were positive. Not an immediate "must see."
Now CONANN, the French movie with six different actress playing Conan at various stages of life, is an immediate must see for me, despite the fact that reviews weren't great.
I'd watch it.
This has been well documented.....long story short its not going to happen.
I enjoyed the second Conan movie more than the first, and also enjoyed Red Sonja. A third Conan movie with Arnold as king? I'd totally watch that.
I've never read a single Howard prose story, however I read a lot of CONAN comics and B+W magazines as a kid. (As a result, actually, I was displeased by the first CONAN movie back in the day, though I'm sure that was stubborn commitment to the source material speaking, rather than any objective sensibility.)
Anyway - I'm not the first Conan semi-fan to suggest that a 90-120 minute film is probably not the best format for telling Conan stories. There are a ton of single issue corkers that would make for good standalone episodes of an ongoing CONAN series (has there been one...?) and there are a few looong Conan arcs (like, 20-50 issues), including a few about old King Conan. The most famous longer Conan story (in Howard's prose and in multiple comic book series) is where he gets married to the pirate queen Belit and tries to settle down/start a family, only to find she's waaay too wild for him. That's not a feature film - that's at least a couple of seasons worth of story.
I'd for sure watch it. CTB was a great film, a classic. CTD....had good moments.
I "almost" count Red Sonja as a Conan flick.
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 11:04:13 AM
I'd for sure watch it. CTB was a great film, a classic. CTD....had good moments.
I "almost" count Red Sonja as a Conan flick.
It was supposed to have Arnold playing Conan. I guess it would have come down to a rights issue somewhere (I did hear the story of why it ended up with him playing a different character instead of Conan, but the story evidently wasn't interesting enough to be memorable), so thinking of it as a Conan film is pretty right.