Issue 4: After a fight with the Shadizar Royal Guards, Jehnna leads Conan to the ancient crypt where the Heart tells them the location of the mythical Horn of Dagoth. Issue ends during their daring escape while the palace crumbles around them and sinks back into the lake. Issue 3: The party confronts Thoth-Amon in his Crystal Palace. Issue ends when Zula swears to give her life to Conan if he will just let her travel with him. First, he and Malak are joined by Akiro the sorcerer, first, then unexpectantly by Zula the Kushite. Issue ends with Conan setting out on his quest. Taramis promises to bring her back if Conan will do her this one teecy-weency favor. Issue 1: Set up the quest with Conan being chased by Queen Taramis. But, the plot is very by-the-numbers and feels like a five issue comic book story-arc. Where the first film followed Howard's works more closely, this film seemed to follow the Marvel comic more closely. The thing about this film is that it's really not a Conan movie. The rest of the costumes are pretty good. I really don't like that silly looking fantasy armor that the Shadizar guards wear, though. Most of the sets look very good, even for today's standards (Thoth Amon sequence excluded, of course). That whole section with Thoth-Amon is just awful.
#CONAN THE DESTROYER CAST THEN AND NOW MOVIE#
That ape-thing that Thoth turns into in order to fight Conan is just, well, not worthy of a D movie from a 1980's video tape. Too bad the Thoth-Amon scene in the room of mirrors couldn't be changed. Yes, it still looks like dude in a rubber suit, but it's a hell of a sight better looking than the original. They touched it up a bit, made the colors darker. But, I'll say this: Even the campy looking Dagoth climax monster looks a heck of a lot better in this version of the film. The cleaned up version + lowered expectations? It's a watchable a film.ĭestroyer remains no where near as good as Ahrnold's first at-bat, and I actually like the recent Momoa version much, much better than Destroyer. I saw the original version on Encore (or one of the channels) a few months ago, and it was a crappy and as campy as I remembered it being when I walked out of the theater after seeing it for the first time in the mid-80's. I will say that the cleaned up version actually makes the film watchable. The set is bare bones, but it does provide the most recent, cleaned up versions of both Ahrnold films. I purchased "The Complete Quest" (not so complete now that The Legend of Conan is being made) for $5 bucks off of Amazon. If the film really starts picking up steam again, fans shouldn't be surprised if the big screen takes a final trip to the Hyborian Age.I re-watched Conan The Destroyer tonight.
"We're looking into it.”Īfter only a year and change spent on the shelf, the script for The Legend of the Conan, and Schwarzenegger's interest in the project, haven't had much time to fade. "It might happen in another life," Morgan explained. But it wasn't exactly a hot property during its development, and the star power of Schwarzenegger had recently failed to make Terminator Genisys more than a curiosity.īut now, in a world where Terminator: Dark Fate has plenty of hype and more returning cast members, Schwarzenegger is back - and so, too, may be The Legend of Conan. Howard’s character sounds like the perfect endcap for Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer. Conan used to be the strongest, but now he's got to be smart."Īn older, wiser version of Robert E. "The point of the story is that even with old age, you're still valuable even if you're not the strongest thing in the world. "We were kinda going to do basically Unforgiven with Conan where he's not the strongest guy in the world anymore," Morgan said. Morgan, whose film Hobbs & Shawrecently brought Deadpool 2 director David Leitch into the fray, did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, part of which (the Conan part) ended up in its Heat Vision newsletter. Now it seems that the idea still lives - and may even be going back to the big screen.
#CONAN THE DESTROYER CAST THEN AND NOW TV#
Back then, it was thought that the story of Conan, 30 years later, could be turned into a TV show. Universal simply didn't want to spend the cash on a franchise it wasn't sure would get modern moviegoers excited. When last we heard about the old man Conan movie The Legend of Conan, it was when longtime Fast & Furious series screenwriter Chris Morgan explained its cancellation. The septuagenarian actor is coming back to the Terminator franchise, and now it seems one of his other famous genre roles isn't quite finished with him.
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