Whatever happened to Sword & Sorcery Cinema?

[CCamfield]

Do you guys know about the "Red Nails" animated Conan movie that's going to be made?

http://conanrednails.com/

Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Slade in the Teen Titans animated show, etc) is going to do the voice, which I think is just fantastic.

 

[Firebeetle]

Wow, Conan!

Do you guys know about the "Red Nails" animated Conan movie that's going to be made?

http://conanrednails.com/

Ron Pearlman (Hellboy, Slade in the Teen Titans animated show, etc) is going to do the voice, which I think is just fantastic.

An ACTUAL CONAN STORY being made into a movie! I'm presuming this is direct to DVD release, but it's refreshing to see a cartoon for adults again along with a classic sword & sorcery story. This project is definately somebody's baby.

Having said that, I have to wonder how cheap it is to make flat animation these days? Is it possible for more movies like this?

 

[Ranger REG]

Having said that, I have to wonder how cheap it is to make flat animation these days? Is it possible for more movies like this?

It depends. If we outsource the production to Korea, it's cheap.

I know, "outsourcing" is a terrible economic dirty word in the US.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Do you guys know about the "Red Nails" animated Conan movie that's going to be made?

http://conanrednails.com/

Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Slade in the Teen Titans animated show, etc) is going to do the voice, which I think is just fantastic.

Yep, we know about it. In fact, there have been a few threads about it in the last few months.

 

[Templetroll]

Actually compared to Conan the Destroyer (which sucked monkey balls), the first film had quite a bit to do with the original character. Many of the Hyperborean countries and kingdoms were represented, and the arms and armor worn by the characters were believable and not ridiculous as was the case with the second film.
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Conan the Destroyer was a great D&D type of movie.

It had a disparate group of characters meeting up under odd circumstances, going to strange places, meeting strange people, killing them and taking their stuff. THEN, when they get the widget AND the princess back to the city the big ceremony suddenly becomes a backstab, or front stab on the princess and then there is a twist that only the big ol' hero can save the world from! It's not great REH but it's a fun flick.

 

[krunchyfrogg]

I wonder if The Gamers made more money than it cost to make.

Probably.

 

[Del]

To be honest I don't mourn the fact there will be no more Deathstalkers films. Conan the Barbarian always had my vote though. Rumour is Swarzenegger balked at continuing to Conan the King because it was "too white". His father being a lowly cop in Austria is well known and Arnie monitered his role choices thusly, figuring getting pinned as a white supremist would be the death of his career.

Too bad though, he nearly did the role of a renegade SS officer who helps the Jews rebel in a well documented ghetto revolt of WWII. I would have definitly paid to see that.

 

[Dark Jezter]

To be honest I don't mourn the fact there will be no more Deathstalkers films. Conan the Barbarian always had my vote though. Rumour is Swarzenegger balked at continuing to Conan the King because it was "too white". His father being a lowly cop in Austria is well known and Arnie monitered his role choices thusly, figuring getting pinned as a white supremist would be the death of his career.

Too bad though, he nearly did the role of a renegade SS officer who helps the Jews rebel in a well documented ghetto revolt of WWII. I would have definitly paid to see that.

Actually, Arnold was fully behind returning to star in King Conan: Crown of Iron until he got elected Governer of California. This resulted in a search for another actor to play Conan, but eventually the project died after spending years in pre-production limbo.

 

[Del]

Actually, Arnold was fully behind returning to star in King Conan: Crown of Iron until he got elected Governer of California. This resulted in a search for another actor to play Conan, but eventually the project died after spending years in pre-production limbo.

Well he might have changed his mind over some 15-20 years?. I remember "he was returning to do Conan the King" a long long time ago.

But lets not argue. It's Christmas. Think of the kids

 

[Tewligan]

Y'know what I'd like to see as a S&S movie? Thieves World. It would be like a fantasy Sin City. Awww, yeah.