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Marcus Nispel to Direct Conan

June 12, 2009

Variety has confirmed a CHUD scoop saying that Marcus Nispel will direct Conan for Nu Image/Millennium Films, ending a nine-year development ordeal to reinvent the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982.

Production on the remake is set to start late this year in Bulgaria and South Africa. Nu Image/Millennium is making the film in a co-production with Lionsgate. Avi Lerner and Joe Gatta are producing with Fredrick Malmberg.

The film will be the most financially ambitious ever for Lerner, with a script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, whose credits include Sahara and Cowboys & Aliens.

Nispel will make Conan his third remake, after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.

Nispel said he will blend his childhood imaginings of the character with the influence of the famous Conan illustrations by Frank Frazetta, and the influence of such viscerally violent period films as Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.

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COMMENTS (55)

Posted by:

McG

June 11, 2009

sigh..

Posted by:

STUDmuffin220

June 11, 2009

no freaking way.....

i think hes somewhat perfect lol

what do u guys think

Posted by:

PTO

June 11, 2009

Friday the 13th was competently directed (never saw TTCM). People should judge this news based on his actual work rather than the film's material, ala script.

If the story is interesting for Conan should be the kicker here.

Posted by:

dan

June 11, 2009

sounds awesome!!

Posted by:

Tigershark

June 11, 2009

Well this movie just became a big bucket of suck.

Posted by:

xavier

June 11, 2009

Nathan Jones for Conan

Posted by:

JoJo

June 11, 2009

Wow!! Freakin' most amazing incredible news ever!! Who's Marcus Nispel?

Posted by:

tb4000

June 11, 2009

Marc,

Nolan had only made three movies before Batman Begins.

Posted by:

Sunny Richardson

June 11, 2009

If he films this is the style of his movie Pathfinder it should be good. Hopefully it will be a better story than that film though.

Who will they cast as Conan?

Posted by:

Rhino

June 11, 2009

I back Nispel, the story and lead actor will be critical and if it sucks it will not be his fault...sorry JoJo but if you don't know nispel you don't know d!ck, pathfinder story was not that good but direction was nice, this will actually be a hard R unless you had your heart set on the directors who gave you Rush hour and Charlies angels