1: Beyond the black river, as directed by the coen bros.
2.People of the Black circle, Steven Spielberg or JJ abrams.
3: The hour of the dragon, Peter Jackson
4:Red Nails, Christohper Nolan.
Ideal Directors For REH Conan Adaptations
Started by mario, Jul 14 2011 05:28 AM
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 05:28 AM
I'll start off with 4 ideas,just for fun.
1: Beyond the black river, as directed by the coen bros.
2.People of the Black circle, Steven Spielberg or JJ abrams.
3: The hour of the dragon, Peter Jackson
4:Red Nails, Christohper Nolan.
1: Beyond the black river, as directed by the coen bros.
2.People of the Black circle, Steven Spielberg or JJ abrams.
3: The hour of the dragon, Peter Jackson
4:Red Nails, Christohper Nolan.
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 09:17 AM
Ridley Scott, with any good adapted screenplay.
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 10:19 AM
Most of the directors I have in mind aren't around anymore. Don't care. These are my guys.
1. Beyond the Black River - John Ford
2. The God in the Bowl - Alfred Hitchcock
3. The Phoenix on the Sword - Mel Gibson
4. The Tower of the Elephant - Steven Spielberg
5. Red Nails - Sam Peckinpah
6. The Scarlet Citadel - Anthony Mann
7. Queen of the Black Coast - Michael Curtiz
8. Rogues in the House - Clint Eastwood
9. A Witch Shall Be Born - Howard Hawks
10. The Vale of Lost Women - George Luccas
1. Beyond the Black River - John Ford
2. The God in the Bowl - Alfred Hitchcock
3. The Phoenix on the Sword - Mel Gibson
4. The Tower of the Elephant - Steven Spielberg
5. Red Nails - Sam Peckinpah
6. The Scarlet Citadel - Anthony Mann
7. Queen of the Black Coast - Michael Curtiz
8. Rogues in the House - Clint Eastwood
9. A Witch Shall Be Born - Howard Hawks
10. The Vale of Lost Women - George Luccas
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 02:18 PM
I had walter hill down for the tower of the elephant , mainly because of the warriors. clint eastwood and mel gibson are both far better choices than what I had for hour of the dragon too.Ridley Scott could do a great beyond the black river but I might like him for a witch shall be born too.thanks guys : 
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 05:26 PM
Crucify me if you like, but I'd pick Tim Burton or even M. Night Shyamalan for The Tower of the Elephant.
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Posted 14 July 2011 - 11:49 PM
I will go for living directors for now..
Robert Rodriguez for Man-Eaters of Zamboula
Scorsese for Red Nails
James Cameron for Beyond the Black River
Robert Rodriguez for Man-Eaters of Zamboula
Scorsese for Red Nails
James Cameron for Beyond the Black River
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Posted 15 July 2011 - 12:02 AM
Crucify me if you like, but I'd pick Tim Burton or even M. Night Shyamalan for The Tower of the Elephant.
Oh, I could go with Burton, too. Shyamalan? I don't know. He'd want to re-write it and put a kid in there someplace.
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Posted 15 July 2011 - 02:38 AM
Crucify me if you like, but I'd pick Tim Burton or even M. Night Shyamalan for The Tower of the Elephant.
Haha, Conan would be played by Johnny Depp and Yag-Kosha would be animated in stop motion.
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Posted 15 July 2011 - 04:41 AM
The first time I saw Michael Mann's version of The Last of the Mohicans, I thought that he would be ideal to adapt "Beyond the Black River."
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Posted 15 July 2011 - 09:47 AM
Neil Marshall, he'd be great for any REH story.
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 05:31 PM
I agree with Neil Marshall. I remember when he gave an interview for the post-apocalypse.uk site when he was making Doomsday. It was nice of him to do for such a small site and he seems like a genuinely nice fellow. Plus he makes bad-ass films.
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 07:17 PM
Eastwood for Beyond the Black River.
Shyamalan lost it after Unbreakable, if you ask me.
Shyamalan lost it after Unbreakable, if you ask me.
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 08:17 PM
no one feels like kurosawa could do a nice turn? what about someone who has some shakespeare in their blood, like brannagh. and what about Guillermo Del Toro.
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In essence, we believe that the work of any creative artist -- writer, painter, illustrator, musician, what-have-you -- is a unique expression of an artistic point of view. It should not be appropriated or altered by others without the artist's consent. No other writer has Robert E. Howard's unique point of view, and no other writer knows what Howard would have done with his character had he lived. Upon his death, his canon, the expression of his artistic vision, became fixed. Tampering with it now is desecration."
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"Our basic purist premise:
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 01:37 AM
Based on Apocalypto, I think Mel Gibson would be great for Beyond the Black River or The Black Stranger.
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 02:35 AM
Based on Apocalypto, I think Mel Gibson would be great for Beyond the Black River or The Black Stranger.
gibson's gonna need a crucifixion, so it would have to be Witch Shall Be Born.
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In essence, we believe that the work of any creative artist -- writer, painter, illustrator, musician, what-have-you -- is a unique expression of an artistic point of view. It should not be appropriated or altered by others without the artist's consent. No other writer has Robert E. Howard's unique point of view, and no other writer knows what Howard would have done with his character had he lived. Upon his death, his canon, the expression of his artistic vision, became fixed. Tampering with it now is desecration."
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 02:48 AM
Based on Apocalypto, I think Mel Gibson would be great for Beyond the Black River or The Black Stranger.
Completely agree. Gibson makes some bad-ass films.
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 09:08 AM
Some great choices here. I think as long as they don't monkey around with the script, Gibson, Marshall, Eastwood and Mann would be very good.
For a more left-field choice, having watched The Fall, I'd quite like to see how Tarsem Singh would handle Conan.
Something that struck me is that in order to do justice to Howard's words, you have to pretty much do what Howard did in prose, in visual form. Howard used so much poetic description and metaphor, that I think a director would have to be similarly visual. The Fall was, in many places, like stepping into a painting. I think a similar approach would be a nice way to go for something with a lot of sumptuous visuals like "Red Nails," "The People of the Black Circle," or any of the green-city stories.
Of course, I'd have to ask that he not go too nuts with the costume design:
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For a more left-field choice, having watched The Fall, I'd quite like to see how Tarsem Singh would handle Conan.
Something that struck me is that in order to do justice to Howard's words, you have to pretty much do what Howard did in prose, in visual form. Howard used so much poetic description and metaphor, that I think a director would have to be similarly visual. The Fall was, in many places, like stepping into a painting. I think a similar approach would be a nice way to go for something with a lot of sumptuous visuals like "Red Nails," "The People of the Black Circle," or any of the green-city stories.
Of course, I'd have to ask that he not go too nuts with the costume design:
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 02:57 PM
whats it about T?
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"All Art Is Martial"- RZA
"Our basic purist premise:
ROBERT E. HOWARD, ENTIRELY ALONE, WITHOUT ASSISTANCE FROM ANY OTHER PERSON, CREATED THE CHARACTER CONAN OF CIMMERIA. NO OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS SHOULD BE INTRUDING THEIR WORK INTO THE VOLUMES OF HOWARD'S CONAN STORIES.
In essence, we believe that the work of any creative artist -- writer, painter, illustrator, musician, what-have-you -- is a unique expression of an artistic point of view. It should not be appropriated or altered by others without the artist's consent. No other writer has Robert E. Howard's unique point of view, and no other writer knows what Howard would have done with his character had he lived. Upon his death, his canon, the expression of his artistic vision, became fixed. Tampering with it now is desecration."
"Here's to brother Painbrush, we drink to his Shade..."
"All Art Is Martial"- RZA
"Our basic purist premise:
ROBERT E. HOWARD, ENTIRELY ALONE, WITHOUT ASSISTANCE FROM ANY OTHER PERSON, CREATED THE CHARACTER CONAN OF CIMMERIA. NO OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS SHOULD BE INTRUDING THEIR WORK INTO THE VOLUMES OF HOWARD'S CONAN STORIES.
In essence, we believe that the work of any creative artist -- writer, painter, illustrator, musician, what-have-you -- is a unique expression of an artistic point of view. It should not be appropriated or altered by others without the artist's consent. No other writer has Robert E. Howard's unique point of view, and no other writer knows what Howard would have done with his character had he lived. Upon his death, his canon, the expression of his artistic vision, became fixed. Tampering with it now is desecration."
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 06:09 PM
What about Christophe Gans? Brotherhood Of the Wolf was a brilliant film. As long as he stayed away from the martial arts fighting I think he could more than do justice to anything Howard wrote.
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whats it about T?
It's a bit like The Princess Bride: a stuntman befriends a little girl while they're both recuperating in hospital, and he starts to tell her a story. However, his deteriorating mental state and her active imagination leads to the line between fantasy and reality in the film starting to bleed together and merge, and the story (within the story) becomes less of a fun adventure and more a dark, violent tragedy. What's most striking is that all the locations are real places, no CGI or sets: Chand Baori, Pangong Tso, Buland Darwaza, Jodhpur, Hadrian's Villa and the like. Quite an amazing film.
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