" This will be the "origins" for Conan, to see how it all began"- Jason Momoa
When the name Conan comes to your mind, what word best describes him? The irresistible force, The immovable object? both those strong words truly show how Conan is, was and will always be the king of kings of warrior and barbarian films.
This is a definite challenge for three big parties in this film. The first party is the studio house responsible for making this film which happens to be "Lionsgate" and they have quite the resume and reputation for making successful films. Since 1998, "Lionsgate" has released a little over 130 films, some of there big films include "American Psycho, Monsters Ball, Crash, The Punisher" and of course there well known franchise "Saw".
This is not Lionsgate's first bull ride, and it sure is not the first re-make that they have been apart of. 2007 is when Lionsgate rolled the dice on one of the most gutsiest remakes in the filming industry, "3:10 to Yuma". It did quite well at the box office bye grossing over seventy million dollars world wide, and when its budget was fifty five million dollars so everyone can agree that it was a no doubt success.
I am so out spoken about the filming industry doing remakes, and I feel the only reason the studio bosses are so open to remakes is cause they want more money and they truly do not understand nor appreciate the uniqueness, and connection the original film left with audiences when they watched it. If the remake can leave the audience with the same feeling as the original did then I would say the studio bosses know what they are doing, unfortunately that is not the way most studio bosses look at it as. They fail to see the big picture cause they are blinded bye dollar signs and they fail to see the art they are about to ruin.
The second party is the director. It takes a very skilled, passionate and gifted director to do a remake. Marcus Nispel is going to take a big leap of faith with re-making Conan, because he has so much to achieve in order to please audiences around the world. Nispel has to make sure he gives the audience what they want out of this film. A great story, solid acting, non stop action and a ton of gore. I mean were here to watch a film which is suppose to have a good 90% of action that involves sex, severed heads, chopped limbs, and total carnage.
Nispel has done some very successful films in the past like "Pathfinder" and Nispel did the re-make for the Texas chainsaw massacre in 2003 and Friday the 13th in 2009, so he has a very good sense in what to do on doing a successful remake.
The third is probably the most important one of them all. what actor would take on the responsibility of playing a role that will always be remembered as an Arnold Schwarzenegger role.
Jason Momoa is his name and he is showing the world just how capable he is buy taking the reigns of a role most seem to believe to be irreplaceable.
If you were to ask me six years ago who Jasson Momoa is I would of just replied WHO?
From 2005-2009 Momoa played a big part in the hit T.V series Stargate: Atlantis. and Just this year Momoa stared alongside Sean Bean, Lena Headey in the HBO original series "Game of Thrones". Momoa's character in the show was so original that you could not watch him without getting the slightest bit intimidated from the performance he gave. A lot of people would say it is fate, but Momoa was actually offered the role as Conan from the casting director who does the casting for game of thrones and he just believed Momoa would be perfect for this role. I'm sure most people are just set in their ways that Momoa will try and repeat the way Schwarzenegger did Conan back in 1982, but "Lionsgate", Marcus Nispel and Jason Momoa want to assure audiences that this is a reboot of Conan, not a prequel nor a sequel. Momao wants to bring a new attitude and image for Conan, and leave the irreplaceable part that Schwarzenegger did alone... in fact Momoa has not even seen the Conan films Schwarzenegger did so you can leave your mind at ease that there will be no copy cat in this Conan.
Nice write up bro!
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