[monolith]

Lots of hear say and rumour flying around about the Conan movie right now, I am still waiting for some real meat on the bone to chew on!!

Anyway more pointless speculation spotted here Marcus Nispel wants to direct Conan

He was responsible for the infamous Pathfinder and the Friday the 13th reboot!!! Crom give me strength!!!

[Kortoso]

monolith, on Feb 13 2009, 12:30 PM, said:

Lots of hear say and rumour flying around about the Conan movie right now, I am still waiting for some real meat on the bone to chew on!!

Anyway more pointless speculation spotted here Marcus Nispel wants to direct Conan

He was responsible for the infamous Pathfinder and the Friday the 13th reboot!!! Crom give me strength!!!

Thanks, Mono, Quiet Earth seems to be hot on the trail. (bookmarked!)

[crossplain pilgrim]

Quote thundarr...This is only pointless speculation on my part, but with no news what else ya gonna do.

Be of good cheer, thundarr. This is the right place for speculation. If we label it for what it is I see no harm, and it gives us something to do until the next real news shows up on the net. And who knows, you may actually be on to something.

[Æsir]

No actually this is the place for pointless speculation.

What if Ratner is going to direct? What if he's another Donnelly-Oppenheimer-undercover-Howard-lover? What if all his previous movies are his "Bad Taste" ones and Conan will be his Lord of the Rings?

That's a lot of what-ifs you might say. One, two.. yeah, I think you're right.

Anyway, Mr Malmberg said to Ten Ton Hammer that they were hoping to announce the director in January, and that has passed, but there's still plenty of time for the summer 2010 release he said they hope for.

Source.

It still makes me wonder, are they still searching for a director or are they choosing among a few potentials? I mean, they did have a group of potential candidates at one point, but are they still choosing from those, have any of them been struck from the list and are there any new names on the bottom? And still whenever I google for news I have to wade through all the old crap just to learn there are no news.

"..so let's just play some music!"

[Waldgeist]

Æsir, on Feb 14 2009, 04:00 AM, said:

... And still whenever I google for news I have to wade through all the old crap just to learn there are no news.

I have tons of crawlers running, that inform me by mail of anything new. I excluded all the "impersonator" results that concern Conan O'Brien or Detective Conan, Arthur Conan Doyle and all those, but sadly Conan O'Brien has become more famous and people on the internet just talk about "Conan" and its HIM. So i get spammed with mails that do not have O'Brien or anything in them, but sentences like "Conan will be in a new movie" and i jump in my seat, then i go to the article and its just Conan O'Brien AGAIN

The world is a bad place when a somewhat generic TV-Moderator could snatch the meaning of a name from the worlds once most famous Cimmerian *sigh*

This post has been edited by Waldgeist: 14 February 2009 - 10:46 AM

[Æsir]

What's a "crawler"?

[Waldgeist]

Æsir, on Feb 14 2009, 04:00 PM, said:

What's a "crawler"?

Google Alerts for example. There you can enter a search query and then set an alert for it. That way you can keep on top of things without googling your brains out all the time.

[crossplain pilgrim]

Heavens, Tu! I think I am beginning to comprehend your more obscure references and dangling allusions. By George, I think I've got it. What you and thundarr are implying, is that a lot of what we read about so-called developments in the production of a new Conan film, may be just some calculated PR spam to hype the financial ambitions of some Hollywood insiders not really connected to the project. How disconcerting. I used to think so highly of those people.

It seems to me with are, at present, left with some basic facts. There has been almost no information coming out on the Conan film at all for months. The lack of news fuels negative speculation, especially within the fan base that takes a keener interest in the film than the general public. The fans are well aware that other major productions have released a steady stream of PR flak on the progress of their films. Inevitably, allusions are made to other REH inspired projects that have died quiet deaths after being announced. Previously announced dates for some "Conan" production benchmarks have come and gone. A few brief updates from the Conan production team could easily quash the negative rumors and reinvigorate the fan base. For whatever reason, they have not been forthcoming. And while we wait, we continue to speculate.

[thundarr]

Yeah, unfortunately hype, posturing, and posing play a major part in Hollywood (or Fool-yee-wood to quote Tu) Honestly as soon as I heard Ratner's name attatched to Conan I smelled something funny in the air and was not surprised at all when Lerner had to "retract" his announcement of the RAT directing as premature. Honestly, a $100 mil production out of Nu Image/Millenium has me sniffing the air after looking through their library of DTV productions.

But enough of me being negative. Back to the Marcus Nispel rumor, if he really is interested in directing Conan, he's probably got a little more credibility and clout after Friday the 13th's huge opening this weekend:

From boxofficeguru.com -

"To nobody's surprise, moviegoers stormed the multiplexes on Friday the 13th to see the new remake of Friday the 13th. But the opening day take was even bigger than expected with an estimated $19M in ticket sales collected in the first day. It was the largest opening day tally of any film since last November's vampire drama Twilight and will go on to generate the biggest opening weekend of 2009 thus far.
Friday's Friday also posted the third best opening day ever for a February release behind 2004's The Passion of the Christ ($26.6M on a Wednesday) and 2001's Hannibal ($19.3M on a Friday). The stellar gross will certainly represent a very high portion of the Friday-to-Sunday take so a three-day bow in the range of $40-45M could result. "

[Æsir]

crossplain pilgrim, on Feb 14 2009, 09:24 PM, said:

The lack of news fuels negative speculation, especially within the fan base that takes a keener interest in the film than the general public.

Yeah, the "masses" are still out there blissfully ignorant going:

-"Triple H for Conan."

-"No. Arnold or nothing."

..every day.

[Kortoso]

I was bored and checked out Pathfinder recently. I think that I had held out because I thought it was a ripoff of Ofelas, and of course real Vikings wouldn't have had horns.

But it was a remarkable movie in terms of the visual style (bleach-bypass and low key). Many of the key shots were composed like a paintings. Some of the elements were kind of rough (such as the white horse and the Jester) and I wish Clancy and Ralf took took off their helmets at some point so we could tell who they were.

But a very good Aesir versus Pict tale from the point of view of the poor little Picts. They even used upstate New York Indians. Marcus Nispel's baby.

A way better film than Outlander.(IMHO!)

[amsterdamaged]

Kortoso, on Feb 15 2009, 03:46 PM, said:

I was bored and checked out Pathfinder recently. I think that I had held out because I thought it was a ripoff of Ofelas, and of course real Vikings wouldn't have had horns.

But it was a remarkable movie in terms of the visual style (bleach-bypass and low key). Many of the key shots were composed like a paintings. Some of the elements were kind of rough (such as the white horse and the Jester) and I wish Clancy and Ralf took took off their helmets at some point so we could tell who they were.

But a very good Aesir versus Pict tale from the point of view of the poor little Picts. They even used upstate New York Indians. Marcus Nispel's baby.

A way better film than Outlander.(IMHO!)

I agree. I'm glad someone else came out and said what I was thinking.

[Hollywood Hogan]

I enjoyed Pathfinder immensely - for what it was, like Kortoso said... an Aesir vs Picts tale. Visually it was dynamic and the fight scenes were well done.

Hollywood

[Gulbrand]

Millennium just extended their option on the Conan film!

The announcement was a bit later than I predicted, but now it is official. Under is a rough translation of the Swedish press release from paradox:

"Option on Conan films extended for around four million kroner (Swedish currency)

The production company Millennium Films has, in accordance to the agreement, extended it's option to produce films with Paradox Entertainment's character Conan. The company has received 500 000 dollar for the extension. The extended option matures in November 2009. Any further extension after this is possible for a further nine month period, at which time the option must be exercised, or the rights return to Paradox Entertainment.

Just now Millennium Films are conducting preparations in its studio in Nu Boyana, Bulgaria, for a planned film start this summer. Fredrik Malmberg, who is creative producer for the film, works together with Millennium and its distributor Lionsgate with the hiring of key personnel, right now mainly a director, but also actors, production designer etc"

[Gulbrand]

Gulbrand, on Feb 16 2009, 10:12 AM, said:

Millennium just extended their option on the Conan film!

The announcement was a bit later than I predicted, but now it is official. Under is a rough translation of the Swedish press release from paradox:

"Option on Conan films extended for around four million kroner (Swedish currency)

The production company Millennium Films has, in accordance to the agreement, extended it's option to produce films with Paradox Entertainment's character Conan. The company has received 500 000 dollar for the extension. The extended option matures in November 2009. Any further extension after this is possible for a further nine month period, at which time the option must be exercised, or the rights return to Paradox Entertainment.

Just now Millennium Films are conducting preparations in its studio in Nu Boyana, Bulgaria, for a planned film start this summer. Fredrik Malmberg, who is creative producer for the film, works together with Millennium and its distributor Lionsgate with the hiring of key personnel, right now mainly a director, but also actors, production designer etc"

I'll kick off the discussion by saying that I think this is the best solution we could hope for.

With the current financial situation, I am very unsure of how a re-auction would go down, and they could hardly exercise the option without even a director.

It is nice to hear that they plan to begin filming this summer, already. It is also worth to note that the terms of the option agreement are even stricter than before (though seemingly somewhat less expensive for Millennium, to compensate). They now have a maximum of only 1.5 years to start filming, one year less than the 2.5 years they originally had left (48 months from the initial agreement).

[Æsir]

Ha! You beat me to it, Gulbrand.

This sounds great: They're preparing to start shooting this summer. I take that as them being positive that the film will indeed be made.

This post has been edited by Æsir: 16 February 2009 - 12:07 PM