Also although this film has been greenlit with Big Arnie starring in it, John Milus was apparently looking for another actor to move on ahead with the project.
But it seems because this is Arnold's movie the trilogy will end with him.
Is Conan The Destroyer any good? Havent seen it but seen Barbarian (pretty good).
I don't know if he'll do any more movies, depends if he gets re-elected Governor.
I remember reading about this yonks ago in Empire before Arnie was elected. Christ, I hope they don't hire Casper Van Dien as the Conan's son if this project ever gets off the ground.
Milius were going to use Triple H (the wrestler, of Blade: Trinity fame) I heard. Though they are now off doing "Jornada del Muerte" and I Robert Rodriguez is going to helm "Conan III"/"King Conan"... and he wants Arnie back.
Milius idea was to tell a story of Conan (Arnie?) and his Son (HHH?). What Rodriguez will do with it is unknown. Rodriguez is putting out atleast two movies first though... "Shark boy and Lava Girl in 3D" and atleast one sequel to Sin City first! (Slated for a Summer 2007 premiere)... so that would put Conan 3 up around 2008/2009? So the Guvernator will probably be free by then - but will he be big (and young?) enough??
oh no... this is NOT a movie for Robert Rodriguez to make, IMO.
I had read that Milius deffinetly wanted to hang onto this project himself, since he was taken out of the director's chair for the two existing sequels because of the studio wanting a more "family friendly" action film. So they turned it over to Richard Fleischer (very bad move IMO).
Anyway, any news at this point is really just pure speculation, but in my opinion this franchise really is not Robert Rodriguez material. I hope we get Milius back.
Well, speculation it may not be - as "several" news sites have reported that Warner Brothers gave it to Rodriguez because their deal with Milius had ended... *shrugs*
You say two sequels though? AFAIK there's only two Conan films... are you counting the Red Sonja flick aswell? (Which doesn't include Conan btw... but Kalidor due to some strange licensing problems...)
Yeah I was including Red Sonja although your right its not really a Conan film. Milius originally wanted CTB to be the first part of a trilogy, but the Studio ruined that idea. It would not surprise me if they ruined Conan III as well.
Ages ago (before he was Governor) I heard he'd just have a cameo in it 