Conan the Barbarian in trouble? Re-shoots in order? 3D being shelved?

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Moviehole has a slightly troubling bit of news regarding CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Nu Image/Millennium’s re-telling of the classic Robert E. Howard tale. (Yes, it’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN now, not “CONAN 3D”.) To get right into it, evidently there have been test screenings of the adventure flick going down, and they’ve been less than encouraging. What does that mean for the picture? Why, re-shoots of course!

Moviehole wonders if the film’s title change is because they’ve maybe gotten rid of the 3D altogether. Their tipster tells them: “It could be that they have abandoned 3D but last I heard they were going to shoot some more 3D friendly scenes and then hire a freelance firm to convert it in post”.

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Seems to me that they’ve known for a while that the flick was going to be released in 3D – so why would it now occur to the producers that there should be some “3D friendly scenes”? Something could be amiss…

Going further, the tipster says the screenings have gone “Okay, but look… some people need to realize this isn’t a film version of the Robert E.Howard books, it’s an interpretation… another spin on the character. It’s a little bit different, but I think it’s fine”.

Hmm.. Not exactly “This movie is awesome and will kick your ass!!” is it? Sounds like this tipster might be close to the production and doesn’t want to arouse panic… But who knows for sure? We won’t until the flick is released in August of next year, so let’s hope that, if there are any kinks, they get ironed out before then.

CONAN’s synopsis To avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his Cimmerian village, Conan (Jason Momoa) goes on a quest to find and kill the sadistic warlord responsible. However, this warlord, Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang), is on his own quest to find an elusive young woman, Tamara (Rachel Nichols), the key to an enigmatic ritual of resurrection. When Conan abducts Tamara and uses her as bait, he is pursued by armies, besieged by monsters and led to a site of primeval magic and human sacrifice.

The Marcus Nispel film stars Jason Momoa, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, Leo Howard, Bob Sapp, Saig Taghmaoui, Nonso Anozie, Raw Lieba, Bashar Rahal and Katarzyna Wolejnio. It comes out on AUGUST 19th.

Rachel Nichols

Source: Moviehole

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