With a steady increase in the amount of movie and series remakes feeding nostalgia and epidemic escapism in recent years, this may be the greatest time to see 20th century harsh fantasy franchise Conan return to the big screen.
Following the announcement in 2019 that Arnold Schwarzenegger was in talks with Conan the Barbarian director John Milius, there has been speculation that the '80s classic might soon make a reappearance. In a recent interview with Experience With, Schwarzenegger said that the only thing left to consider was whether to go "with a TV series, like with Netflix, or one of the other places.
Schwarzenegger's enthusiasm for a Conan relaunch appears to have arrived just in time. Conan is one of those immensely successful media and story stages that was what Game of Thrones is now to a mid- to late-twentieth-century audience. The series' premise, which involves a muscular, magical, sword-wielding hero against a slew of baddies against a mythical setting, is intriguing.Author Robert E. Howard initially published it in Weird Stories magazine in the 1930s. The series was later expanded into five novels, which were adapted into Marvel's King Conan comic series, giving birth to Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, two of the first films to star America's favorite Austrian, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When asked about the appeal of his protagonist in the upcoming film Conan the Barbarian when it premiered in 1982, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied, "I think he's a very heroic character," going on to say that the film's elements of fantasy, adventure, magic, and humour in general work for their appeal "to the whole family."
The Schwarzenegger of the 1980s was the ideal star for the Conan films, his size almost a rite of passage, aided, of course, even early in his career by a relatively excellent reputation and an impressively 'American' biography. When Conan the Barbarian was published, the 33-year-old European actor and bodybuilder represented a side of America that the country desired to see: a young person entering the land of opportunity and using that opportunity to achieve huge success.
Schwarzenegger adapted Howard's originals' blood-soaked, half-naked demeanor into the blood-soaked, half-naked demeanor of a man fighting against the odds of a foreign landscape. The hero of the renowned story of American prosperity, ornately dressed with a dream environment, expensive costumes, set design, and violence, could not be performed by a more suitable actor. When questioned about Conan the Barbarian's appeal, the answer may be found not in the words spoken, but in the man who speaks them.
