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"Conan" returns
Boaz Yakin has been tapped to write and possibly direct a new Conan film for WB.
Yakin's film credits include directing "Uptown Girls" and "Remember the Titans" and writing "The Rookie" and "Dirty Dancing 2."
Yakin also has done some comics work, penning the 2001 Vertigo graphic novel "The Remarkable Worlds of Professor Phineas B. Fuddle," drawn by his brother Erez Yakin. Expect this version of Conan to be more like the original Robert E. Howard stories.
The film will be produced by Irving Azoff, Jon Jashni, Rick Alexander and Akiva Goldsman, with a 2007 start date expected.
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I'm so excited to hear about this!!! I'm 28 years old, and for some reason the making of this movie has been on my mind for years now! It's actually been kind of weird because I've really thought about this alot, it's even keep me up some nights thinking about how this movie should be. I'm no producer, but I can almost picture how this movie could be, and I'm sure it would make a killing in the box office!! I would love to share my ideas and my inthusiasm with the maker of this film. I'm no weirdo but this movie has had a real grip on me for some reason and I feel like I'm suppose to reach out and give my ideas (what actors I think would work/ and the story board) but please do not think I'm saying my ideas are better, I'm just saying I've pictured this movie in my head and I would be excited if those thoughts would make it to the big screen! If I'm not responded to please at least here this, I think the movie should start with Arnold on the throne where the last on ended, but this time the begining credits will explain that after many years of ruling his kingdom, Conan finds himself getting old and having to face an enemy even stronger than himself. The movie will also flash back to when he was on his journey to the throne, and he gets a lady pregnant, but what he does not know is that he has a kid with her. The kids name is conan, but thinks his mom only named him after the king, but not that he is the actual son of the king! The movie will start out showing him as a really tough kid (played by the kid that calls himself little hercules), inspired to be like the king, to getting older and finding out he is trully the son of the king (played by the rock). He will then go on a journey to help fight for his father Conan, who is in a loosing war, unite with his father, and overtake the enemy (wich will be played by Brock Lesner). This will start a whole new series of Conans with Rock as the lead character! Tell me that don't sound cool as shit! I swear I can see the whole movie in my head, and I'd love to see it on the big screen!!!!!
Posted by: keith | October 13, 2006 05:09 AM
Oh and Conan SR. will obviously be played by Arnold, and I think Conan JR should also have a tough leading lady, to be like a new Red Sonja! I was also thinking that he should have like a stepfather, which he thinks is his real father till finding out other wise, and that guy should be played by a tough guy, who finds himself going to war and fighting with his raised son, but dieng while doing so!
Posted by: keith williams | October 12, 2006 at 09:43 PM