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Brett Ratner Off Conan

Source:Empire

May 8, 2009

Empire magazine spoke to Conan and Red Sonja producer Joe Gatta, who said that Brett Ratner is not attached to direct the former anymore:

"We're currently in the process of hiring a director," he told us. "For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn't work. But you never know what can happen."

Gatta added that they are hoping to start production on Conan on August 24 in Bulgaria, while Red Sonja would start sometime next year.

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COMMENTS (42)

Posted by:

Conan Fan

May 7, 2009

Thank god he's gone.

Posted by:

Darkest Knight

May 7, 2009

BRING BACK ARNOLD

Posted by:

Lemmy Danger

May 7, 2009

Pity! The Last Stand was actually the best of these X-Men Movies... And the first two Rush Hour Movies were really cool!

Posted by:

Darkest Knight

May 7, 2009

The Last Stand was terrible. It's the worst X-men movie, and one of the worst comic book movies of all time. You're retarded.

Posted by:

Art Vanderlay

May 7, 2009

Presumably Lemmy is joking. Either way, it's a very good thing for the studio that Ratner is gone, because they need a director with a bit more subtlety than Ratner for this project. Back in the 80s, it would've been fine to have a hamfisted director at the helm, but nowadays, fantasy action films that are just pure action and no style or story are going to bomb, every time.

Posted by:

Jeff

May 7, 2009

dont forget about the amazing after sunset. ooh and the family man. awesome.

Posted by:

Alex

May 7, 2009

Ha ha.

Posted by:

Tyler Perry is the anti-christ

May 7, 2009

With Brett directing, I could totally see him casting Chris Tucker as Conan. And then Jackie Chan would cross dress and play his asian whore as they'd fight big austrians on vacation in Europe.

And the sad part is, people would pay to see it.

Posted by:

Ben Isaac

May 7, 2009

Thank god. You know, I actually love Rush Hour 1 and 2 and Money Talks, but I just didn't have the confidence in Brett to handle Conan. He's too much (I think) of a slick, summer comedy guy, I just don't see him having an innate understanding of sword and sorcery stuff. Conan needs to be done JUST right. It needs to be a reboot, yet honoring of the original works, it needs to be visually spectacular and violent as ****, with a rousing score and a great actors' cast.

Neil Marshall would be damn near perfect!

Posted by:

iam_hollywood

May 7, 2009

GOOD!!! HE DESERVES TO DIRECT NOTHING FOR NOW...AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!!