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Posted by Matt Holmes

In a huge deal which is claimed to have been a seven figure sum, Millennium Pictures have picked up the movie rights to make a new series of films based on Conan the Barbarian, a character that launched the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982. The deal comes around six weeks after it was revealed that Warner Brothers weren’t intersted in renegotiating a deal to keep the rights of the series they have struggled to get off the ground for seven years and it was said New Line Cinema were the firm favourites to take over.

In the end though it’s landed at Millennium who beat off four other suitors (one of which were New Line), in what is probably their most ambitious project to date. The company are also behind the Pacino/De Niro thriller Righteous Kill and John Rambo.

So what can this studio do different where the mighty Warner Brothers failed? Well the first thing is to sit-down and work out exactly what type of film they want to make with the character. There’s so many different interpretations of Conan, I think that hindered all the previous developments because the studio wanted one thing and the writers always delivered another.

Then I would hire three different screenwriters to give it their best shot (sure it will cost them, but they have paid such a big sum already so they might as well give it a go) and see which draft comes out the best and incorporate the best bits of each into a cool film.

Millennium want production on this to begin in the Spring and they don’t want to leave this project hanging around. It’s now a top priority for them, so they are probably looking at the summer of 2009 for a release date. Imagine if they manage to get it off the ground and it becomes profitable, Warner Brothers will be so pissed another studio managed to do it so easily.

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categories - Movie News

Further Reading

• Lionsgate get CONAN

• CONAN gets infected by Zombie?

• CONAN, GAME, TEKKEN POSTERS!

• Tarantino was offered Hawaii Five-O?

• New Line looking to purchase Conan

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