Meet the new Conan.
 

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Before he was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was Conan the Barbarian. The 1982 film wasn't in the same league as some of Ah-nold's bigger hits, but it remains a cult favorite. Today, the first trailer for the remake, starring the formidible Jason Momoa in the title role, hit the Web.

Momoa, who will receive CinemaCon's Rising Star of 2011 Award, may be best known for his work on "Stargate: Atlantis" and "Baywatch." Several years ago, Momoa and Lisa Bonet made news after they named their child Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa. Momoa's mother later explained that Nakoa means "warrior."

Should Momoa's version of "Conan the Barbarian" be a hit, interest in the actor with intimidation to burn is sure to rise. Indeed, he's already surging in the Search box. Over the past seven days, online lookups for "jason momoa" have flexed their muscles, jumping 44%.

You can check out the new trailer for "Conan the Barbarian" below. The film is scheduled to hit theaters this August.

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As trailers go, that was pretty weak.

I hope the film isn't a disappointment.

Pretty weak for a first look.

The pic looks more like a shot from Prince of Persia. The trailer looks like a teaser for a film coming out a year from now, not this summer. No real detail, shadowy generic scenes. Odd.

Looked like a Direct to DVD hit!

Oh, and I clicked on the thread from the lounge and thought it was going to be about a new zany, wild-haired, late night talk show host.

I don't know how good an actor Momoa is but he looks the part more than Arnold did. Though he obviously does not have Arnold's physique.

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You are such a negative piece of shit. I hate all your posts.

Conan was Arnold's best movie. Chick in that movie was KC native. SM east grad or something like that.

I'm skeptical. I probably saw the original 20 times as a kid. But, hell, I'll give it a shot.

A few years ago I got a good deal on the Conan series (see below) and bought it. Never have gotten around to watch any of it. Has anyone watched it?

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Somehow Frankie, I think you'll be the first.

:D

Probably. It was really cheap, so "what the heck!"

I really liked that actor in Gladiator with Russell Crowe, so maybe it'll be a fun ride.

Let us know! :)

Thanks. I couldn't place his face, and it was bugging the hell out of me.

Yeah, it sucks when something bothers me, too, especially actor/actress stuff.


Drink up, Pal. It's Saturday night!

Ralf Moeller

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*breaks open a Chimay in Dane's honor*

That was an awesome performance. He was a true Bro in that film.

That film was and still is to this day, an all time classic.

Brilliant from top to bottom: Directing, cinematography, acting, casting, score - just everything.

And I'll do a shot of Glenlivet in yours.

Strength and Honor!

And with that, I'm off to watch "Gladiator". The wife and daughter return tonight at midnight, so I'd better enjoy it while I can.

'Night all and thanks, Frankie!

It was a great movie. It's also interesting about how they had to finish around Oliver Reed's death during the shoot.

KHAL DROGO

Pretty weak trailer, not sure what to think of this re-make.

Hell, you cant tell shit from that trailer. Ill wait for a better one.

Gotta agree. Looks like somebody from queer eye for the straight guy chose the new Conan. I read the whole series as a kid and will most likely skip this one.

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That dude looks like a miniature version of The Great Khali.

Yeah... I agree. It's a "teaser" trailer anyway.

I expect the movie to suck, but hope to be surprised.

I hope you have a good imagination. This one is gonna be like trying to imagine the little dog from legally blonde 2 being Kujo.

Not being modern bodybuilder buff is why he looks the part more, nobody back then was built like Arnie.

But while they got that right, i'll bet anything they get the rest wrong... i smell a quick dvd release.

He looks the part fine, I'm more worried about how he sounds.

Never watched Baywatch. I liked him on Stargate Atlantis but I didn't think anything he did on there really screamed "lead actor in major motion picture".

He must be doing something right, though, because they wouldn't have hired him on Game of Thrones if he didn't have some chops.

It's not like Arnold did a whole hell of a lot of acting in the first one.

No but he was entertaining.

You guys are killing me. Conan was a blood thirsty barbaric beast not some dark haired maybelline Fabio.

He talked funny but at least looked the part.

Absolutely. The original is one of my childhood favorites. Kind of unfair for me to expect this to live up to that.

Actually, he would have been a dark haired Hun, not a blonde Norwegian.

LMAO True.

:doh!:

It's a bonus when people are familiar with the source.

:facepalm:

What's the source? The comics?

Honest question. I loved the original as a kid... and I know there are Conan comics... but I have no idea which came first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian

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This supposed to be Conan, not Hawaii's model of the year. Why does Hollywood always have to do this? What's next? Here is Conan going down the runway wearing a ravishing two piece.................. Give me a ****ing break.

Dude, I read the whole series. It was the only thing I really got into reading as a kid. How the **** can you post that picture? What, you see Conan as being friggen Mowgli?

Gotcha, some fanfiction art from a poster at deviantART should be taken as gospel over a creator approved image.

http://moritat.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=conan

I read the entire series and saw all the cover art and nothing remotely resembled Mowgli or some runway model. If that's what puts a fire in your shorts spend your quarter. Maybe your Conan can do his rendition of bare necessities of life and fall on a banana while wearing a stunning rag made by Vera Wang.

Books or comics came way before Arnold.

LOL. In the absence of an ape intelligent enough to play a Hollywood speaking role, I think Momoa is more than a reasonable likeness to the character. And certainly not Fabio-like.

This movie will suck. I'm sure they sacrificed plot and dialogue for the CGI budget. Just another Mummy/Hulk CGI abortion.

The girl in Conana was a fat, drug-doing mexican dude who favors illegal immigation and is underemployed at some bill collection agency?

Anyone know If this is going to be "R"? I'd hate to see a PG13 Conan.

No worries, I'm sure it's gotta be R with Maybelline in it. It's probably not for the gratuitous violence though.

It was called Conan the Destroyer.

I don't know how you ever recreate what's in my mind when I think of the Conan series but at least give it the ol college try. Hollywood always seems to do it's very best though to take in a direction that just totally pisses on the memory. Whether it's taking a feeble child and making him Spiderman or it's taking America's next top model and making him Conan. Give me a break.

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Both images are exaggerations, big time, of the author's intent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian

6'2, 210 may have been huge for Conan's time, but it's commonplace today.

Well I'm not dropping my dime to watch maybelline.

I'm relieved

or this one

this one

I could go on and on.

That one actually looks very close to the OP

last one

Conan the Barbarian was great because of the 3 villain roles. Ben Davidson and Sven Ole Thorsen were massive. It doesn't come close to the source material but it's enjoyable for what it is.

This new Conan movie looks okay but there's no way its going to be better. Ahnold's Conan had just 2 or 3 lines that were longer than a couple of words. they really played to his strengths. Conan the Barbarian had epic music from Basil Poledouris too. The new movie might suffer from depending on an unknown to take on the role and act.

Let me know when someone makes the unrated film versions of John Norman's Gor. :hump:

And it was terrible.

Apparently Momoa worked himself up to 225 or 230 pounds for the role. He's 6'4. It's not like we're talking about a tiny little guy here.

Even as far back as only 2000 years ago the most common man was about 5-6 to 5-7 (according to some program I watched either on history Channel or Discovery). All of those tall heroic looking Romans, for example, speaking with classic English accent on the screen wouldn't look and sound so awesome and imposing if we went back in time and met them.

Arnold was not that much of a known actor at the time he made CTB.

Also they do a good job with "epic music" and all the other stuff you mentioned if they put proper effort into it. You act with conviction like this is gonna be SciFi channel movie. We don't know yet the quality they aim to put out.

Sorry guys about answering the same post twice. But it occurred to me that only half a century ago, Jimmy Dean's lyrics of "Big John" referred to the "giant of a man" as " stood six foot six and weighed 2-45." Those are the numbers of an average (a bit lanky) linebacker on almost any college campus.

Just sayin'.

I hadn't even considered the possibility that they were trying to make a shit movie. And I'm not sure that this movie is going to suck, its just my first impression.

Well since we are going back in the day as you put it where are they going to go get a bunch of dark haired dark skinned midgets to play the picts?

I liked him in SG:Atlantis..

That movie was already produced.

It's called "Willow".

LMAO Perfect, bring in the cast.

I'm pretty sure that you aren't talking about Gladiator, which is, without a doubt, the worst movie to have ever won Best Picture Oscar.

New trailer:

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I'll see it. I'm a sucker for this kinda thing.

In 3D!