For fans of the good Conan, you're in luck. No, I'm not talking about the Jason Mamoa version that got the gore and violence right but screwed up basically everything else. I'm not talking about the rumored Arnold sequel/reboot that seems to be stuck in developmental limbo. I'm talking about a whole new property that sounds as if it is trying to lean on the Robert E. Howard literary works that are largely considered the best format and tales of Conan, period. Robert Howard's take was always focused on a wandering version of Conan, searching for civilization, buxom babes and monsters to bury his blade in.
According to Deadline, the new series is being developed by Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones‘ director Miguel Sapochnik, and Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield. That is not a bad group of talented folks, especially the Game of Thrones director, who obviously knows how to do badass sword combat.
Here's the report:
Created and written by Condal, Conan retells the classic character’s story via a return to his literary origins. Driven out of his tribal homelands, Conan wanders the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization where he searches for purpose in a place that rejects him as a mindless savage.
Condol is apparently a big fan of the source material, and has a creative goal for the series that follows in that old-school vein:
The creative goal to return to the original Robert E. Howard literary works and produce a series that is faithful to the spirit his Conan character. Conan the Barbarian aka Conan the Cimmerianr was created by Howard in 1932 in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.
Please give us a good Conan show! Help us Condol. We haven't seen good Conan in decades.
