If this is a Spin-Off from the Conan series, How come Arnold's character has a different name?? Why isnt his name Conan? Is it a completly different person who just happens to look exactly like Conan?...BTW I havent seen this movie lol
shareBecause a different studio owned the rights to Conan. Arnold was intended to play Conan, but Universal Studios wouldn't allow it.
shareThat just sucks! Why do these producers always do their best to mess up the movies?!
shareBecause they didn't want this crappy film to reflect badly on the Conan films.
shareIt's on BBC1 tonight, is anyone gona watch it? I am, I've never seen it before, so this will help me decide if I should spend money on the DVD or not
shareI'm watching it right now.
shareI thought it was quite entertaining! Arnold wasn't in it for most at first, but he's my fav actor ever so I had to see it, even thou everyone hates it for some reason...
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A quite entertaining and underevaluated movie (especially if you love the genre) but Arnold here is useless: they put him in it just because of the actor growing popularity; in Italy, even worse: the movie is known as "Yado", who in fact is Kalidor...
shareI enjoyed the movie. I would have preferred if Arnold had actually played Conan as Red Sonja is a spin-off from the Conan series but I can live with it.
shareLike Conan the Destroyer was such a feather in the Conan cap.
shareGeez because he isn’t Conan!!! Different film people, different name
shareI always wished they were a little more ambiguous about Arnold's character in this, so that it would be easier to imagine it being Conan.
sharethere's a red sonja fan edit that makes it conan 3 with arnold playing conan. it has mako narration and the conan theme music. someone posted it on the facebook conan group if you care to search for it.
shareThis has been answered a million times.
It has to do with copyright/trademarks on the character.