Jason Momoa’s Conan to battle Avatar’s Stephen Lang?

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Despite the fact that he’s been acting for 30 years, Stephen Lang is seemingly already most identified with his dastardly Col. Quaritch character from AVATAR (I mean, how can he just calmly sip his coffee while blowing up the Home Tree?!). The screen-and-stage veteran should expect to receive a plethora of similarly evil roles which will enable him to fly way over-the-top, and it looks as though he’s close to settling on his first one.

Latino Review, a site that clearly has the hook-up when it comes to CONAN news, is reporting that Lang is in negotiations with Millenium and Nu Image Films to play the role of “Khalar Singh”, the villain whom Conan will butt heads with in the Marcus Nispel flick.

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Here’s the character breakdown (WARNING: SOME SPOILERS):

Khalar Singh is in his 40s to 50s, Asian or Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Mongol, Turkish, or Persian, open to all ethnicities; commanding in size and manner, a warlord and formidable warrior, brilliant, cruel, weathered and tanned by the many campaigns he has waged and won. He is driven in his quest to find the Queen of Acheron and has been building an empire to do so.

His goal is to find the Queen whose blood will bring life to the demonic minions of Acheron while making himself king of this hellish power. With this power, Khalar will protect his legacy against the onslaught of master sorcerer, Thoth-Amon so that his weak son, Fariq may rule after his death. While riding into a Cimmerian village to recruit his old comrade, Corin, his large collection of mercenaries slaughters them to the last soul when Corin refuses to join them. The village’s only survivor was young Conan. When Khalar’s search has finally narrowed to the likely discovery of the queen at a monastery of female monks, he also learns Conan is older and hungry for revenge…

My favorite part is, at the very beginning, it states that Singh is “Asian or Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Mongol, Turkish, or Persian”. So obviously, the producers thought, “Get me Stephen Lang!” Ah well, he’s a badass, so is anyone really going to argue?

Source: Latino Review

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