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Arnold ready for King Conan


https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3546039/arnold-schwarzenegger-still-wants-return-old-man-conan-movie/

The current trend is ignoring failed reboots like Halloween, Ghostbusters so its quite possible King Conan will now finally happen - esp if T6 hits

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Eh, Arnold could pay for the whole thing out of his own pocket, if he really wants to make this happen.

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Well it'd cost at least 100m for an R rated Conan (and even that be on the tight side ideally 150m) so it'd probably clean him out if it bombed

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arnie explains what the hold up is:

“When it comes to the movie," Arnold begins, "the sad stuff about all of this is when there’s an estate like this, The Robert E. Howard estate…when someone buys these rights, those people now own the rights and they have their own vision of what they want to do and the guy that has the rights is some young guy and he’s trying to figure out how to get his way through Hollywood and this is not easy to do. So there are people that say to him, 'why don’t you start with a TV series and then he negotiates for a TV series and that falls apart. And then he goes maybe to Netflix and that falls apart. Then he decides to make a movie maybe…but in the meantime, we have been trying to convince him for years now that the way to go is to come back and hire a really great director and to do another Conan movie and have me play King Conan, when Conan is like 70 years old and he's disgusted by sitting on the throne and being the king and then something happens after that. It’s really not that far from creating a finished script. The only one who really has to pull the trigger there is the people who own the Conan rights to do a movie. Let’s go to Netflix or whoever it is, let’s hire a director who’s very creative and can elevate the project to make it a winning project. I hope it will be done very soon because I think it’s a great idea."
http://www.thearnoldfans.com/news/2019/3/3/exclusive-arnold-talks-t6-fate-of-conan-brings-comic-con-pop.html

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