After many years of rumors and false starts, we learned earlier this year that Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing King Conan, a third installment in the sword-and-sorcery saga with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to return as pop culture icon Conan the Barbarian.
Arnold Schwarzenegger played Conan in the 1980s films Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, and he has been vocal about trying to get a new Conan movie off the ground for a while now. Is it really happening this time? THR reports this afternoon that according to Schwarzenegger himself, King Conan is set to begin filming next year!
The scoop originally came courtesy of the website The Arnold Fans.
“Next year we are going to do King Conan,” Schwarzenegger reportedly told the site. “So that is a reality now and I am excited about it. For the last ten years I have been saying, ‘we should do King Conan and we should get a great script written, get someone who really understands Robert E. Howard, that understands the artwork of Frank Frazetta and to continue on.'”
Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 79 years old this July, which may make you question whether it’s too late for him to play Conan one more time. In Arnold’s mind, now is the perfect time.
“The movie wouldn’t have worked after I did the first Conan because the whole idea of King Conan is that for 40 years he has been king, he is older now,” Arnold explains. “He is no longer in the shape he was from his heyday and now people are trying to take him out. He’s the king and he gets a little bit complacent. He’s tired of the job and he wants to move on. Look at the movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven. It will be a lot like that but with extraordinary battles.”
Christopher McQuarrie will write and direct King Conan for 20th Century Studios.
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