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Let's just pray that Milius is brought on board.

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!

...82 Conan is by far the best Sword and Sorcery film ever made. Nothing else in the genre comes close...

...Forget about that British hoighty toighty Tolkien cr## ...

I have but one fervent wish for the new film:
No giant snakes.

What ? you are desperately trying to compare the false flawed CTB film to the magnificent epic Lord-O-T-Rings ?
And, you seem to be spouting blunt antagonistic flaming nonsense about brilliant Tolkien.

Not making that comparison at all, since Tolkien isn't Sword and Sorcery but rather High Fantasy -- good vs. evil, save the world, rooted in European mythology, etc.

http://en.wikipedia....ord_and_sorcery

So the fact that the 1982 Conan is the best S&S film ever made should give us hope for the new Ahnold endeavor. Let's just pray that Milius is brought on board.

(Also, the snake fx in ANACONDA are horrible. They have a forty foot python that moves with the speed of a six inch garter snake. Totally fake looking in every scene, as is often the case with cgi.)

First and foremost I always loved (and still do!) Howard's Conan above and beyond the pastiches for the most part, with 'Beyond the Black River', 'The Frost Giants Daughter', 'Queen Of the Black Coast', and 'Red Nails' being HUGE faves. That aside, I was still enthralled by CTB '82 and still am. I was able to sit down and basically say to myself 'Okay, this is different. They're portraying a different Conan here. But it's also the same Conan as well inasmuch as he's still a heroic barbarian from Cimmeria who's the baddest ass in a world full of badasses...and man, that's good enough for me!'. I looked at it - and again...still do - like a great cover tune: based upon the original...but remade wholly new, and reinterpreted as the secondary artist's own. I couldn't have given less of a s***t that he was a slave who learned fighting techniques from Eastern masters as opposed to a feral, 'self-made' wildman. He was still dark, menacing, and formidable. The bodycount certainly stacked up nicely enough! LOL! Throw in the EPIC score by Basil Poledouris, the great cinematography, and the dark, mythic, Nietzchean touches of Milius's own...and it really was a very unique, artistic, and enjoyable piece of work IMO.

Quoted at length because you've perfectly captured my own feelings -- even down to the four best REH yarns! (Although Tower of the Elephant is just a half an inch behind...)

Also, if I may add: forget about 'the real Conan character' for a moment -- the '82 Conan is by far the best Sword and Sorcery film ever made. Nothing else in the genre comes close. Nothing else captures the essence of the genre -- a genre originally created by REH, and one of the first truly American fiction genres. Forget about that British hoighty toighty Tolkien crap with its elves and white wizards and rustic furry-footed hobbits -- Sword and Sorcery is pure American, like the Western or the film Noir. It's all about a man cast into a unforgiving world, left to his own wits and brawn, living by his own code and just trying to survive. In that sense, the Milius film is a pure distillation of what REH created.

And, to all,
what scenes, battle scenes, magic/supernatural, would you like to see in the new film?

I have but one fervent wish for the new film:

No giant snakes.

i presume you are refering to the scenes with the magnificent Akivasha deep under the pyramid in the dark maze of scarey unseen weird creatures.
Those scenes are superb weird horror in which Conan is unerved and scared, and later flees from the awesome chilling and sexy 10,000 year old famous Vampiress.

Yes, very creepy, and utterly pointless, serving the story not a whit. It would be the first thing cut in an adaptation.

HOTDragon would make an epic great film, when done faithfully by fans who care.

I agree, but it would cost several fortunes and require a 45-year-old Conan, so it shall not come to pass anytime soon.

And for those of you hating on this project, consider this: after the screwup that was Conan 2011, your only hope for a continuing Conan franchise on film for the next 20 years is this guy:

We need to get over the hand-wringing now because it won't do any good and start telling anyone who will listen that this needs to be an adaptation of Hour of the Dragon.

Hour of the Dragon should be the mantra.

I just did a quick 'back of the envelope' budget for HOUR OF THE DRAGON as a feature film and it comes out to $1.31 billion ($1.32 if you add the utterly pointless vampire sequence). As much juice as Ahnold might have, he's not got that much.

If you really, really want a direct adaptation you need a more confined story like BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER or RED NAILS, neither of which can star a 65-year-old Conan. So KING CONAN it is!