Arnold Schwarzenegger has been trying to get a new Conan the Barbarian movie off the ground for a while now, but it looks like the property is instead being turned into a TV series over at Netflix. Deadline reports that the streaming service is developing a live-action series based on the iconic Robert E. Howard-created sword-and-sorcery character.
Deadline’s Nellie Andrews notes, “I hear the project, from Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media, is the first in a deal between Netflix and Conan Properties International, owned by Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment. The pact gives Netflix the exclusive option to acquire rights to the Conan literary library and develop works across TV and film, both live-action and animated.”
Netflix is currently seeking a writer/director and showrunner for the project.
Schwarzenegger played Conan in the 1980s feature films Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, and he had recently expressed interest in coming back to reprise the role.
Jason Momoa took over the role of Conan for 2011’s Conan the Barbarian.
The character of Conan the Barbarian was created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, introduced in a series of fantasy stories that were published in Weird Tales magazine.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3634360/netflix-developing-live-action-conan-barbarian-tv-series/
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