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Maybe Danzig?
Althogh he is going more for a Wolverine look.
Dave Bautista would actually be interesting as well.
http://tvline.com/2018/02/05/conan-the-barbarian-tv-series-amazon-reboot/
The ideal is Milius and Arnold. But I'd see either an Arnold film or an Amazon series production. And in the second case, they're doing great stuff in that venue. It can do justice to Milius at long last.
Having watched that documentary, Milius states that the original idea was for him to make 3 Conan movies. Sadly, the second less-violent, somewhat disappointing Conan the Destroyer was instead directed by Richard Fleischer, who some might say had a pretty good reputation with the old The Vikings (1958) movie. It was the writing by Stanley Mann instead of Milius that killed the franchise off though. I don't know what the real reasons were for Milius not making Conan the Destroyer other than him being tied up with the rewriting of Red Dawn from someone else's script? Doesn't make that much sense.
Either way, I can't see Milius ever being involved with Conan again. He's still recovering from a very debilitating heart attack and his passion is now getting Genghis Khan made.
PS. Another thing I didn't realise was that it was Milius that rewrote the famous Robert Shaw Indianapolis speech scene, which he dictated over the phone to Spielberg. Shaw loved the speech that Milius rewrote in Jaws but said it was too many lines to remember, so cut it down in half by his own editorship skills, and delivered the one that's in the movie. Goddamn, that man knew how to write good dialogue. "But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world..." and " I love the smell of napalm in the morning" plus "Charlie don't surf" are just some of his other great bits of dialogue ingrained in the public consciousness that he penned.
I notice that after reading some of the comments from certain Youtube bozos that some complain that the first movie wasn't faithful to the source material. They then go on to say read the comic book first!! This made me laugh as Robert E. Howard didn't write them for a comic but as pulp-fiction. They were of course first published in Weird Tales magazine in the 30s. It was only after Howard's death, that the copyright of the Conan stories passed through several hands. Eventually, under the guidance of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the stories were edited, revised, and sometimes completely rewritten. I mean, I'm no Conan purist, but it seems that a whole slew of different writers have taken what Robert E. Howard first wrote and altered it in some way. Had Oliver Stone's first screenplay been used then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been any closer to Robert E. Howard's original vision than Milius's, it would've been Stone's drug-fuelled take on it and possibly much less violent. I think the revised visual image of Conan came from Frank Frazetta in 1967?
The score was excellent for this movie.
One of my favourite scores. Must say the film looks and sounds great on blu ray. Such a shame what happened to director John Milius!
He did a great job here!
I have never read any of the books. Just read the comics, both Conan and King Kull. They are pretty similar.
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