Bran Mak Morn director and writer named

[Swoop109]

Looks like another of Robert Howard's characters will be making the leap to the silver screen. Let's just hope that they can get it right this time.

BRAN MAK MORN? BERG!
07.14.05
By George Merchan
Contributing sources: Variety
Looking past what may be the most imaginative news headline I've ever written, the latest rumblings out of Hollywood come in the probably more creative form of Robert E. Howard's quasi-historical fantasy, Bran Mak Morn.

Peter Berg (director of the pretty damn good Friday Night Lights) has been set up by Universal Pictures to helm the adaptation of Howard's multinovel series which is being penned by John Romano (Intolerable Cruelty, the upcoming Philip Noyce film American Pastoral).

Howard, as many of you know, is probably most famous for the creation of everyone's favorite Hyborean Age Cimmerian, Conan. With Bran Mak Morn, Howard "mixes the historical with the fantastical as the title character, a mythical king of ancient Britain, forges an alliance with supernatural troops to contest the unstoppable forces of the Roman Empire." Though I haven't read these particular novels (yet), I can't help but be utterly intrigued by the concept. I've always been a huge fan of Conan (both the books and the films... well, actually Destroyer can just go to hell as far as I'm concerned), so I'd love to see other material of Howard's get the filmic treatment. Having someone like the talented Peter Berg involved also goes a long way in warming the loins. So it's all good.

Bran Mak Morn will supposedly be Berg's follow up to his upcoming collaboration (again) with Michael Mann, The Kingdom. No word on what's going down with Splinter Cell (a video game property with actual potential), but my guess would be that of the two, the Mann-produced project will be the one that's given the go.

Taken from; http://chud.com/news/3670

 

[Dark Jezter]

If it's half as good as Conan the Barbarian, I'll be one happy dude.

 

[shilsen]

Bran was always one of my favorite Howard characters. Color me interested.

 

[David Howery]

"an alliance with supernatural forces"... sounds like they're looking at "Worms of the Earth"...

 

[Particle_Man]

Hey if they are doing Howard characters, I wonder if there is a chance that someone would do a Solomon Kane movie (Oh please! As long as you gave it the respect it deserves, of course).

 

[nikolai]

Hey if they are doing Howard characters, I wonder if there is a chance that someone would do a Solomon Kane movie (Oh please! As long as you gave it the respect it deserves, of course).

You might actually get it.

Wandering Star currently has three Robert E. Howard related feature projects in development, Solomon Kane in co-production with Davis Film Paris, Kull and Bran Mak Morn.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10369

 

[Turanil]

Hey, if these three movies are done well, that would indeed be great!

 

[David Howery]

didn't they already do Kull? With Kevin Sorbo and Tia Carrerre? And it was really bad?

if they remade it and made Kull's struggle against the Serpent men the centerpiece of it, that would be a lot better...